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    Help with inverse...

    I want to enter 10 words in a vector and print the inverse.

    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <conio.h>
    #include <string.h>

    void reverse(char str[]);

    Code:
     
    main()
    {
    clrscr();
    char str[200],str1[200];
    int len;
    int i;
    int j;
    
    for(int i=1; i<=10; i++){
    printf("\nEnter your nickname:");
    gets( str[i]);
    len=strlen(str);
    for ( i=0,j=len-1;i<len;i++,j--)
      str1[i]=str[j];
    str1[i]='\0';
    puts(str1);
    getch(); }
    }

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    Do you have a specific question, or were you just looking to be chastised by the forum pedantics on your coding and posting practices?
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    And what part of this are you struggling with?

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    Use strrev() and print as many reverse numbers as you want :d
    Also don't you think it would be good if you indent your code properly?Here you are only writing only 10 lines so it's not a big deal but do you think you would be able to debug your code if you write more than 1000 lines of code?which braces are for which that itself you wouldn't be able to distinguish

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    Boy are these cboard types ever tough! You are not far from being close to getting what you want though.

    Normally I think you should refer to an array as an array and not a vector, but anyway, lets take a look at your code, indented and with the necessary includes:

    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <string.h>
    
    int main()
    {
    	clrscr();     // what's this and why is it here?
    	char str[200],str1[200];
    	int len;
    	int i;
    	int j;
    		
    	for(int i=1; i<=10; i++){  // you already declared i as an int
    		printf("\nEnter your nickname:");
    		gets( str[i]);		//gets requires a string buffer; str[X] is a single character
    		len=strlen(str);
    		for ( i=0,j=len-1;i<len;i++,j--)
    		  str1[i]=str[j];
    		str1[i]='\0';
    		puts(str1);
    		getch(); }	// not a standard C command and unneccessary anyway
    }
    Now something that can be compiled and might bring you closer to your goal:

    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <string.h>
    
    int main()
    {
    	char str[200],str1[200];
    	int len, i, j;
    
    	for (i=1; i<=10; i++){
    		printf("\nEnter your nickname:");
    		gets(str);
    		len=strlen(str);
    		for ( i=0,j=len-1;i<len;i++,j--)
    			str1[i]=str[j];
    		str1[i]='\0';
    		puts(str1);
    	}
    }
    This just does the same thing ten times. It doesn't accumulated anything in str; for that you probably need another string buffer:

    Code:
     #include <stdio.h>
    #include <string.h>
    
    int main()
    {
    	char buffer[20],str[200],str1[200];
    	int len, i, j;
    
    	for (i=1; i<=10; i++){
    		printf("\nEnter your nickname:");
    		gets(buffer);
    		if (i>1) strcat(str,buffer);
    		else strcpy(str,buffer);
    		len=strlen(str);
    		for ( i=0,j=len-1;i<len;i++,j--)
    			str1[i]=str[j];
    		str1[i]='\0';
    		puts(str1);
    	}
    }
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    You could have at least said something about NOT using gets(), and using fgets() instead.
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    If I see someone using gets() with like a 4k buffer or something, I usually do not utter a peep. But with a 20 byte buffer I do have to ask what the writer is expecting to happen. You do realize that upset users are prone to typing stuff like

    Code:
    asdfkl;wjerq0981341=3-4908a;fkljadfjk;l1234l;jkadf;jkl
    At least that is what I do when a command line program keeps complaining about every little thing that its crazy input demands. So keep in mind that you shouldn't really ever use gets() but if you feel you must, don't use it with such rediculously small spans of memory.

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    Ehh whatever I was bored, saw this topic, had my editor opened, and so I coded an implementation. I don't think there are any bugs, so this should help you out.

    Code:
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <stdio.h>
    
    int revstr(char * orig, char ** new_rev);
    
    int main(int argc, char * argv[])
    {
    	char * org = "Google would more than likely reveal the answer, but I was bored...";
    	char * new_s = malloc(200 * sizeof(char));
    	if (!new_s) return 0;
    	
    	revstr(org, &new_s);
    	
    	printf("&#37;s\n", new_s);
    	
    	free(new_s);
    	return 0;
    }
    
    int revstr(char * orig, char ** new_rev)
    {
    	if (orig == NULL || *new_rev == NULL) return -1;
    	int i = 0;
    	int j = 0;
    	
    	while (orig[i] != '\0') i++;
    	
    	while (--i >= 0) {
    		(*new_rev)[j] = orig[i];
    		j++;
    	}
    	(*new_rev)[j] = '\0';
    	
    	return 0;
    }

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    How about something even more simplistic?

    Code:
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <string.h>
    
    int revstr(char * orig, char ** new_rev);
    
    int main(int argc, char * argv[])
    {
    	char * org = "Google would more than likely reveal the answer, but I was bored...";
    	char * new_s = 0;
    
    	revstr(org, &new_s);
    	
    	printf("&#37;s\n", new_s);
    	
    	free(new_s);
    	return 0;
    }
    
    int revstr(char * orig, char ** new_rev)
    {
    	char *tmp;
    
    	if(!*new_rev)
    	{
    		if(!(tmp = malloc(strlen(orig) + 1)))
    			return 1;
    	} else
    		if(!(tmp = realloc(*new_rev, strlen(orig) + 1)))
    			return 1;
    	strcpy(orig, tmp);
    	strrev(tmp);
    
    	*new_rev = tmp;
    	return 0;
    }
    Yours is probably faster, but mine copes with stuff a little nicer... unless you don't initialize the pointer you pass to the function.

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    Nothing wrong with multiple solutions.

    I hadn't even thought about doing it that way actually.

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    There certainly is nothing wrong with a second solution. I have the double threat motivating me....bordem and spanish homework.

    I think my way of accepting the pointer parameter combined with your actually copying over the string in reverse would probably be the most optimal solution (particularly if you copy in int-sized chunks).
    Last edited by master5001; 10-29-2008 at 07:53 PM.

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    Spanish... lol...... Got my third and final year of that done last year, hopefully I want have to take that crap in College.

    Also, if I get bored enough I may time the implementations and post the results. I'd much rather do that then coding something useful, lol.

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    >>hopefully I want have to take that crap in College

    I am not so fortunate.

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    I speak spanish damn near fluently and had four years of it back in high school.

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    I guess speaking it fluently would be pretty cool. Although I just don't have the desire to learn a foreign language.

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