If 3D array is given like that, is there a way to store a character into a string and add character into the string to make a word?Code:char grid[3][3][4] = {{{'a', 'b', 'c'}, {'d', 'e', 'f'}, {'g', 'h', 'i'}}, {{'j', 'k', 'l'}, {'m', 'n', 'o'}, {'p', 'q', 'r'}}, {{'s', 't', 'u'}, {'v', 'w', 'x'}, {'y', 'z', 'a'}}};
So for example, store 'a' into the string first to make it "a", then add 'e' to the string to make "ae", then finally, store 'i' to make "aei". Is this possible by any chance?
Last edited by jh294; 04-02-2011 at 04:24 AM.
What is the connection between this grid of characters and this string that you're talking about?
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Hm, let's say there's a string like:
I want to make the characters into a string like I said, then check to see if it equals to the "aei" string. Hope you understand what I mean :sCode:char word[] = "aei";
As in you want to convert that grid of characters into a string, and say, check if word is a substring of that new string?
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Yes, convert characters into a string then check if it is equal to the word string.
Ah, but you say "equal" rather than "substring". Let's take your example: imagine that you have converted grid. What does the result look like?
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Hm, I am not sure what you mean by "substring." So, what I am trying to do is, I assign the starting point and end point of the grid, so in this case would be, [0][0][0] and [0][2][2].
so I have "a(empyty)i". Since the word I am looking for is "aei", I have to increment the grid, I think, untill it becomes "aei".
Now array contains the entire grid. But I'm sure that's not what you want. If it's a word-search problem then you have to consider that the word may be going in any direction, even diagonally in the grid.Code:char array[28]; int x = 0; for (i = 0; i < 3; i++ ) { for (j = 0; j < 3; j++) { for (k = 0; k < 3; k++) { array[x] = grid[i][j][k]; x++ } } } array[x] = '\0' /* null terminator */
I see that the grid now goes into array[x] one by one, but what does null terminator do? Is it for the empty space at the end of the string?
Also, how would I do diagonal? That was actually the problem I was having.. I know how to read rows with string, but not vertical or diagonal :S,,,
