Thread: character array

Hello all! I am hoping someone can help me with this because my professor wont get back to me(he lacks programming skills, I believe). Anyways, I am supposed to create an array with a user specified amount(between 10 and 30) of random letters to be generated. After the amount of characters has been specifed, the program should send the base address of that memory and its size to a random function(which I thought I created correctly) and fill the memory with random capital letters. After this function has completed, it will go back to the main program and prompt the user to enter a capital letter to be searched for(using the search function, which I also thought I did correctly). In the search function, it should print out the index locations of each and every match between the random letters and the letter being searched for. Hope it makes sense. I have provided the code that I have so far. Another thing, it is in 4 files: array.h, array.c, random.c, and search.c...I thank you for helping in advance!

Code:

/*array.h*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int random(char *data, int num);
int search(char *data, char ch, int num);

/*array.c*/
#include "array.h"

int main(void){

  int num;
  char ch;
  char *data;

  printf("%s%s",
        "Enter the number of random letters to be generated \n",
        "(MUST BE BETWEEN 10 AND 30): ");
  scanf("%d", &num);
  fflush (stdin);
  while(num < 10 || num > 30){
    printf("Error: Must be between 10 and 30! Try Again:\n");
    scanf("%d", &num);
    fflush (stdin);
  }

  data = calloc(num, sizeof(char));

  int random(char *data, int num);

  printf("Enter a CAPITAL LETTER to be searched for:\n");
  scanf("%c", &ch);
  while(!isupper(ch)){
    printf("Error: Must be a capital letter, Try Again:\n");
    scanf("%c", &ch);
  }

  int search(char *data, char ch, int num);

  return 0;
}

/*random.c*/
#include "array.h"

int random(char *data, int num){

  srand(time(NULL));
  data[num] = (rand() % 26) + 65;

  return 0;
}

/*search.c*/
#include "array.h"

int search(char *data, char ch, int num){

  int n;

     for(n = -1; n < num; ++n)
        if(data[n] = ch)
          printf("data[%d] = %c\n", data[n], ch);

   return 0;
}

all your information you gave us is good and will be helpful, but you forgot one important thing-what in the program ins't working right???? We'll help you with your homework, but if you just give us the code and ask us to fix it, that's the same as us writing it all for you, which we don't do.

The code reads in the number of letters as well as the capital letter itself, however, it doesnt create the random array or search and print. Sorry about that...Im just looking for help, not someone to do it for me, otherwise I wouldve posted it a long time ago and not have written anything!

I just used the %s%s in the first printf() statement so it would look more clear and the assignment doesnt ask specifically for pointers!

I think the problem with your two functions is that you're trying to give the pointers int values.

[code]
int random(char *data, int num){

srand(time(NULL));
data[num] = (rand() % 26) + 65;

return 0;
}

Try changing data into an int instead of a pointer, and just use &data when you need the address. That should work.

Actually, the fflush() was my teacher's idea, but thank you for letting me know, that just makes me doubt him that much more!