reversing a string, again..

after browsing through the search function for most of the day, and still having trouble with reversing string, I figured its time for this noob to ask for some help.

I'm working on a assignment where I have to reverse the words, and characters of an array, without using strrev. If the user inputs 'have a nice day' the output should be

yad
ecin
a
evah

Reversing the words I can do. Just can't wrap my head around copying the last character of an array to the first character of another. Any help wound be greatly appreciated.

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include<string.h>


int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{

        char words[3][10], reversed[3][10], temp[3][10];
        int count, num, length;

        for(count=0; count<3; count++)
        {
                printf("\nPlease enter word #%d: ",count+1);
                gets(words[count]);

        }
        puts("");


        length=strlen(words);


        for(count=2; count>-1; count--)
        {
                for(num=0; num<length/2; num++)
                {
                        strcpy(reversed[num],words[length-1]);
                }

                //puts(words[count]);
                puts(reversed[num]);

        }


        getch();
        return 0;
}

You don't use strcpy to copy anything other than a string. Specifically, you don't use strcpy to copy a character; you use = to copy a character.

Also, using gets() is not advised. From the manual page on my system:

BUGS
Never use gets(). Because it is impossible to tell without knowing the
data in advance how many characters gets() will read, and because
gets() will continue to store characters past the end of the buffer, it
is extremely dangerous to use. It has been used to break computer
security. Use fgets() instead.

So to copy the characters of the array into a char variable, like this, but I get an invalid indirection error. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include<string.h>


int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{

        char words[3][10], reversed[3][10], temp[3][10], charCopy;
        int count, num, length;

        for(count=0; count<3; count++)
        {
                printf("\nPlease enter word #%d: ",count+1);
                gets(words[count]);
        }
        puts("");

        length=strlen(words);

                for(count=0, num=length-1; count<num; count++, num--)
                {
                        charCopy[count] = words[num];
                }


                //puts(words[count]);
                printf("%c",charCopy);

        getch();
        return 0;
}

Code:

        length=strlen(words);

What are you trying to do there? Get it to return the length of all the words at once? That's not going to work. If you want each one's length, you need to check each word one at a time.

Also, look at what your'e doing here:

Code:

charCopy[count] = words[num];

Again you're looking at a whole word, not each letter of the word. I would probably advice against figuring out how to handle all the different words for now. Just try to get it working with reversing one word.

Quzah.

pseudo code for reversing strings

Code:

LOOP{
    new_array[ first_index ] = old_array[ last_index ]

    increase first_index count,
    decrease last_index count,
}