Thread: Calling a function from a different file

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    Calling a function from a different file

    Hello!

    I'm doing this homework of reversing an inputted string. However, I was just wondering, if I have two files, one main.c and the other tnirp.c, how do I run main.c so that it incorporates the function in tnirp.c?

    Here is the code for tnirp.c


    Code:
    #include<stdio.h>
    #include<string.h>
    
    
    void tnirp( char s[] ){
    
    	int length = strlen(s);
    	char s2[100];
    	int i=0;
    	int j=0;
    
    	for (i=length-1; i>=0;i=i-1){
    			s2[j]=s[i];
    			j=j+1;
            }
    
    	printf("%s\n",s2);
    
    	return;
    
    }
    and here is the code for main.c:



    Code:
    #include<stdio.h>
    #include<strings.h>
    
    void tnirp( char s[] );
    
    int main(void) {
      char s[100];
    
      printf("Enter string:\n");
      fgets(s, 100, stdin);
    
      tnirp(s);
    
      return 0;
    }

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    How are you compiling/linking the project? The two source files need to each be compiled and then linked together to form the final executable. How you do this depends on your IDE/compiler/linker.

    BTW, you might want to make sure that you NULL terminate your s2 array in the tnirp function, you aren't doing that currently. Also, it would be nice to do a simple check in that function's loop that tests that j is less than 100 so that you don't overwrite memory if someone passes in a string that's more than 100 characters. fgets will extract the newline as well, if you want that processed by your function then you're fine, if not then you'll want to strip that character before you pass it to the tnirp function.
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