How do I maintain relations in struct while merge sorting int array?

[cicikamarena]

Does anyone know how I could maintain relations between the char and int in structs while merge sorting the ints in the struct? So if I had nameandnumber[1].buffer assigned a value that used to be at nameandnumber[7].buffer, nameandnumber[7].phrase would get moved to nameandnumber[1].phrase?

My struct

typedef struct
    {
        int buffer;
        char phrase[30];
    }
    nameandnum;

and then I put

nameandnum *nameandnumber

later in main

I'm parsing a series of numbers that correspond with letters in a .txt file that sort of looks like this:
4 apple
2 pear
14 spaghetti
18 tea
1 coffee

so the numbers get put into buffer and the letters + spaces go into the phrase.

I'm merge sorting the numbers in buffer but how do I do that so 1 is still next to coffee rather than apple?

 

[JavaJames]

You should sort the array of nameandnums using their values of buffer as the sort criterion. This keeps the matching values of buffer and phrase together. Ie sort the structs, not just one field in the struct.