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C Program to implement Radix Sort

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The idea of Radix Sort is to do digit by digit sort starting from least significant digit to most significant digit. Radix sort uses counting sort as a subroutine to sort.

Example of C Program to implement Radix Sort

#include <stdio.h>
#define MAX 100
#define SHOWPASS
void print(int *a, int n) 
{
  int i;
  for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
   printf("%dt", a[i]);
}
 
void radix_sort(int *a, int n)
{
  int i, b[MAX], m = 0, exp = 1;
  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
  if (a[i] > m)
  m = a[i];
 }
 while (m / exp > 0)
 {
  int box[10] = { 0 };
  for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
   box[a[i] / exp % 10]++;
  for (i = 1; i < 10; i++)
   box[i] += box[i - 1];
   for (i = n - 1; i >= 0; i--)
   b[--box[a[i] / exp % 10]] = a[i];
   for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
   a[i] = b[i];
   exp *= 10;
  
#ifdef SHOWPASS
   printf("nnPASS   : ");
   print(a, n);
#endif
 }
}
 
int main() 
{
  int arr[MAX];
  int i, num;
  
  printf("nEnter total elements (num < %d) : ", MAX);
  scanf("%d", &num);
  printf("nEnter %d Elements : ", num);
  for (i = 0; i < num; i++)
  scanf("%d", &arr[i]);
  printf("nARRAY  : ");
  print(&arr[0], num);
  radix_sort(&arr[0], num);
  printf("nnSORTED  : ");
  print(&arr[0], num);
  
  return 0;
}