Thread: Confusion with passing Arrays

Hey all,

I am having trouble with getting an array from a local function, for a local function. So i have....

Code:

int main(int argc, char *argv)
{      code     }

int local_function1()
{      code     }

int local_function2()
{      code     }

a line inside local_function1 makes a call to local_function2 which creates an array. This array then needs to be passed back to local_function1 for processing. local_function1 will make this call as many as 42 times, each time local_function2 will pass back a different array.

I am having a great deal of trouble implementing this.

If anyone has any pointers on this one i'd really appreciate it.

Thanks,
-Nick

Cool, so the return statement in local_function2 would be...

Code:

return array;

would this direct the "filled in" array back to local_function1?

Thanks again Salem,
-Nick

Thanks for your help guys.

I wrote out a quick program to test your advise before I attempted to implement it in my program.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void func1();
int func2(int *array);


int main()
{
   func1();
   return 0;
}

void func1()
{
   int i;
   int array[10];
   func2(array);
   for (i = 0; i < 10; i++)
   {
      printf("%d\n", array[i]);
   }
}


int func2(int *array)
{
   int i;
   for (i = 0; i < 10; i++)
   {
      array[i] = i;
   }
   return *array;
}

this printed out as expected....

Code:

[*** ~/ENEL323]gcc test.c -Wall -o test
[*** ~/ENEL323]./test
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Thanks again,
-Nick

Noted

Cheers,
-Nick