Sort the digits programming exercise.
The winter is coming, and all the warehouses are nicely packed with food. But someone needs to sort it all. So the king offers a noble title to anyone who can:
Write a function that takes an integer as an input. And then generates a new number where all the digits are sorted in an descending order.
Example: 1342 => 4321 5791 => 9751
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public static int SortDigits(int num)
{
//Oh boy.. We can solve this coding problem
//in a 1000 different ways. But since the goal is
//to learn new things, I am going to use a lot of
//functions and explain them.
//first lets convert "num" to string and then to char array.
char[] digits = num.ToString().ToCharArray();
//we needed this array so we can sort it.
Array.Sort(digits);
//but we need a reverse sorting
Array.Reverse(digits);
//now we have a char array, but we need an integer
string str = new string(digits);
return int.Parse(str);
//and that's how we convert char array to a string
//I want to stress that we cannot use = operator
//we cannot do "str=digits". Because they are different types
//s is a string and digits is an array.
//Do be safe, assume that we can use the Assignment operator "="
//only on the same data types.
}