Thread: watching character array in visual studio

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    watching character array in visual studio

    I'm trying to pass a character array as a parameter, and I need to check to make sure that it's passed alright (i pass the pointer and then the length). When I debug through it, the variable watcher only shows the first character. Does anyone know how I can view, or walk through the character array so i can verify the contents?
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    I think this isn't a real C++ issue. You could add debug code to the function to print the array, I suppose. Can't you use std::string instead?
    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    
    void J(char*a){int f,i=0,c='1';for(;a[i]!='0';++i)if(i==81){
    puts(a);return;}for(;c<='9';++c){for(f=0;f<9;++f)if(a[i-i%27+i%9
    /3*3+f/3*9+f%3]==c||a[i%9+f*9]==c||a[i-i%9+f]==c)goto e;a[i]=c;J(a);a[i]
    ='0';e:;}}int main(int c,char**v){int t=0;if(c>1){for(;v[1][
    t];++t);if(t==81){J(v[1]);return 0;}}puts("sudoku [0-9]{81}");return 1;}

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    There are all sorts of alternate formats you can add to your variables, especially pointers.

    In the watch window, edit the var to be
    myCharPointer,10
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    thankyou salem, that's exactly what i was looking for
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