Thread: organizing text II

Usually, a good try is, when you're off by one (a common error), and you have a > with a skipped over number, try changing the > to >=.

I can't tell if that's the problem here, because your snippet of code is small and your variable names, like z, are meaningless to me.

Commenting on CheckSym from message #13

Originally Posted by yohannes

Code:

int CheckSym (char a[])
{	int counter=0;
	int i=0;
	char *temp;
	*temp = a[i];
	
	while (strcmp (temp, " ") != 0){
		counter ++;
		*temp = a[i++];
		}
		return counter;
}

to find the length of symbol (i.e. 10-12B-CTRL (counter = 11), 1234-22B-CTRL (counter = 13), etc)

What is the type of temp? What is its value or to where does it point?

So when you dereference it (*temp) where does the value you copy (a[i]) into it go? What is the type of a[i]?

strcmp takes as parameters null-terminated strings. How does temp point to a null terminated string? Where is the terminator?

What is the type of " "? How many characters are in the string? How much memory does that string occupy? How much of that does strcmp look at?

If you answer these questions for yourself, you will find a significant improvement.

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