Added Comb Sort in C

Author: inesane

sortingAlgo/combSort/a.out

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+// C implementation of Comb Sort
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
+
+// To find gap between elements
+int getNextGap(int gap)
+{
+    // Shrink gap by Shrink factor
+    gap = (gap * 10) / 13;
+
+    if (gap < 1)
+        return 1;
+    return gap;
+}
+
+// Function to sort a[0..n-1] using Comb Sort
+void combSort(int a[], int n)
+{
+    // Initialize gap
+    int gap = n;
+
+    // Initialize swapped as true to make sure that
+    // loop runs
+    bool swapped = true;
+
+    // Keep running while gap is more than 1 and last
+    // iteration caused a swap
+    while (gap != 1 || swapped == true)
+    {
+        // Find next gap
+        gap = getNextGap(gap);
+
+        // Initialize swapped as false so that we can
+        // check if swap happened or not
+        swapped = false;
+
+        // Compare all elements with current gap
+        for (int i = 0; i < n - gap; i++)
+        {
+            if (a[i] > a[i + gap])
+            {
+                int temp = a[i];
+                a[i] = a[i + gap];
+                a[i + gap] = temp;
+                swapped = true;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+// Driver program
+int main()
+{
+    int a[] = {8, 4, 1, 56, 3, -44, 23, -6, 28, 0};
+    int n = sizeof(a) / sizeof(a[0]);
+
+    combSort(a, n);
+
+    printf("Sorted array: \n");
+    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
+        printf("%d ", a[i]);
+
+    return 0;
+}