Thread: Printing words into a 2D array

Hi I'm making a crossword program which takes an input and prints it out onto a crossword board. The input is in the following format:

Puzzle-Word Row-Letter Column-Number Direction Clue

I can separate this input into its components. However I am having trouble taking the puzzle word and putting into the crossword grid. Is it possible for someone to give me some guidance to a possible solution for this?

Your help is much appreciated.

Here is the code I have written so far:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#define MAX_SIZE 12
#define DOT '.'
#define MAX_PUZZLE 10
#define CLUE_LENGTH 25


void printClues ();
void printBoard ();
int  main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    
    printf("Enter new clue (type . if finished): ");
    printClues ();
    printBoard (puzzleWord);
    
    
   
return 0;
}


void printClues () {
    
    char  puzzleWord[MAX_PUZZLE];
    char  rowLetter;
    int   columnNum;
    char  direction;
    char  clue[CLUE_LENGTH];
    //separates the input into its components
    scanf("%s %c %d %c", puzzleWord, &rowLetter, &columnNum, &direction);
    fgets(clue, CLUE_LENGTH, stdin); 
    //prints the separate components of the input to check for successful separation
    printf("Puzzle-word: %s\n", puzzleWord);
    printf("Row Letter: %c\n", rowLetter);
    printf("Column Number: %d\n", columnNum);
        if (direction == 'a'){
            printf("Direction: ACROSS\n");
        } else if (direction == 'd') {
                printf("Direction: DOWN\n");
          }
    printf("Clue:%s", clue);
    
} 
    
void printBoard (char  board[MAX_SIZE][MAX_SIZE]) {
    int  i, j;
    char c = 'a';
    //INTIALISES THE EMPTY CROSSWORD GRIDE
    for (i=0; i<MAX_SIZE; i++) {
        for (j=0; j<MAX_SIZE; j++) {
            board[i][j] = DOT;
        }
    }
    //PRINTS THE BOARD
    printf("  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 91011\n");
    for (i=0; i<MAX_SIZE; i++) {
        printf("%c", c++);
            for (j=0; j<MAX_SIZE; j++) {
                printf(" %c", board[i][j]);
            }
     printf("\n");
     }
     printf("\n");
}

puzzleWord is an array or type char right?
So iterate through the array:

Code:

  char str[] = "hello world";
  int i;
  
  for (i=0; str[i] != '\0'; i++) {
    printf("The letter is: %c \n", str[i]);
  }

Maybe you could incorporate the grid position changes (where you want t copy chars to) right into that loop.