Sorting Built-in Types in Go (Challenge)

Introduction

The Go programming language provides a built-in package named sort that implements sorting for builtins and user-defined types. In this challenge, we will focus on sorting for builtins.

Skills Graph

%%%%{init: {'theme':'neutral'}}%%%% flowchart RL go(("`Go`")) -.-> go/AdvancedTopicsGroup(["`Advanced Topics`"]) go/AdvancedTopicsGroup -.-> go/sorting("`Sorting`") subgraph Lab Skills go/sorting -.-> lab-15428{{"`Sorting Built-in Types in Go (Challenge)`"}} end

Sorting

The problem to be solved in this challenge is to sort slices of strings and integers using the sort package.

Requirements

The sort package must be imported.
The sort.Strings() function must be used to sort a slice of strings.
The sort.Ints() function must be used to sort a slice of integers.
The sort.IntsAreSorted() function must be used to check if a slice of integers is already sorted.

Example

## Running our program prints the sorted string and int
## slices and `true` as the result of our `AreSorted` test.
$ go run sorting.go
Strings: [a b c]
Ints: [2 4 7]
Sorted: true

Summary

The sort package in Go provides a simple and efficient way to sort slices of built-in types. By using the sort.Strings(), sort.Ints(), and sort.IntsAreSorted() functions, we can easily sort and check if a slice is already sorted.