Any way to make shorter???

[Unregistered]

Hey, I am making this DOS maze game and to make my levels i have to use %c and the binary code for the two lines thing (eg 200, 205, 204 ect). How can I make this code shorter?

printf("%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c %c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c\
%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c %c%c%c%c%c\
%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c"
,V,S,S,S,V,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,BL,RIS,S, S,S,V,S,S,S,V
,S,S,S,V,BP,S,V,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S, S,S,S,S,S,S
,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,S,V);

V, S, BP, BL RIS are #defines to the binarys, that i put in a Header file.

[kooma]

While I fail to understand what is all that for, I suggest using a structuce/array to store those values. And then print 'em in a loop... ?

[Unregistered]

Binary? When you say "200, 205, 204", I assume that you mean you have defined these "V, S, BP"s using the integer codes for the ASCII characters you wish to see printed.

In that case, and if the code below is the extent of the problem, then I would suggest doing it like this:

     char                        // instead of #define's
        V = (char)200,
        S = (char)205,
        BP = (char)204;

    char szMazeString[] =    // make your maze an array of chars
    { V, S, BP, '\n',        // \n for newline at the end of each row
       V, V, V, '\n',
       BP, S, BP, '\n',
       0 };                    // don't forget to with a NULL character (0)

    printf("%s", MazeString); // print it as a string with just one call to printf

Regardless of how printf(...) functions internally, it seems to me that this should be significantly faster.

[Unregistered]

Hrm, a small correction:

either use "const char" instead of "char", or go back to using #define and, for example, #define V (char)200, etc...