Thread: Quick Question

I appologize but i have not taken a C class in a couple of years and now that i am taking one I encountered a problem.

I am given the following two files which I am not allowed to modify using gcc on a unix server:
****p1.c *******

Code:

#include "getword.h"
int main()
{
int c;
char s[STORAGE];
for(;;) {
        printf("n=%d, s=[%s]\n", c = getword(s), s);
        if (c == -1) break;
        }
}

***getword.h****

Code:

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

#define STORAGE 255
      /* This is one more than the max wordsize that getword() can handle */

int getword(char *w);

**************************************************

i have to write getword.c which gets one word from the input stream and returns -1 iff EOF is encountered otherwise it returns the number of characters in the word

i can pass an input from the user from getword.c using fgets() however , how can this input be stored into the already declared char s[STORAGE] in p1.c ?

how can this input be stored into the already declared char s[STORAGE] in p1.c ?

p1.c passes the "array" to the function ("getword"), so that the function can modify it however you want. This seems to be a pretty strange function, but thats another story.

Basically, in "getword" you get the input (up to the given max. size, ensuring you do not overflow), and store it in "w", which you can freely modify. Then return the number of characters in the string, depending on the given specific word.

got it ! thanks

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