Help plz in making power function?

Im getting some troubles in making a program that uses function to display results power of entered number with entered power and results are passed back to main(). See my code, there is something wrong, how can I make output?

Code:

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#include<stdio.h>

int power(int a,int b)
{
 int i,j;
 for(i=1; i<b; i++)
 {
 a=a*a;
 }
 j=a;
 return j;
}

void main()
{
  int n,p;
  printf("\nEnter number: ");
  scanf("%d", &n);
  printf("\nEnter Power: ");
  scanf("%d", &p);

  power(n,p);

}

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I got it......I got it....

Code:

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#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
int power(int a,int b);

void main()
{
  clrscr();
  int n,p;
  printf("\nEnter number: ");
  scanf("%d", &n);
  printf("\nEnter Power: ");
  scanf("%d", &p);

  power(n,p);

  getch();


}

int power(int a,int b)
{
 int i,c=a;
 for(i=1; i<b; i++)
 {
 a=a*c;
 }
 printf("\n%d",a);
}

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Really? You have main returning void and you are sure ok?

Have been to that position too. I posted something and then I solved it by myself.. So, that proves that I didn't try enough by myself, thus I posted too easily. We should post, if we really need to! But this happens. You found the solution, but most of the users read "I got it.." and leave the thread. It would be better if you wrote something like "It works, any suggestions though? "

So replace void main()
to

Code:

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int main(void)

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Also have the main retuning zero before exiting, like this

Code:

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getch();
return 0;
}

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that way you inform the rest of the world that everything went ok :)

Also, as I think you have already told, but to make sure everybody can see that, conio.h is not standard, thus I would suggest everybody never use it. For more, click here.

Also, since function power does not seem to really return nothing, change the prototype of the function to this

Code:

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void power(...);

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Don't forget to change the prototype of the function before and after main.

Also try to input as number 2 and as power zero. Are you getting the correct result? My guess is no.

Why? Because of the terminate condition in your for loop inside the body of function power. Maybe you should modify the power function to this

Code:

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void power(int a,int b)
{
    int i,c=a;
    if(b == 0)
    {
        printf("\n1");
        /* Even though the function's return */
        /* value is void, we always can return (terminate) */
        /* the function, but we simply don't return something. */
        return;
    }
    for(i=1; i<b; i++)
    {
        a=a*c;
    }
    printf("\n%d",a);
}

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So, I suppose this code wasn't ok. But, I have to admit you really did a good try ;)