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I'm having problems deciding how to program a certain function, maybe you can help:

As part of a class assignment, I have to program a function that takes in integers from the user until a zero is entered.

Then the function calculates and displays the sum of all positive integers entered, but only the ones that have their digits in increasing order from left to right(for example, 123 is okay, but not 321 or 801).

I don't know how to create a function that decides if an integer's digits are increasing or not.

Take into account that this is a first course in C and this is the first exercise we received, so there are many things I can't use, such as: arrays, pointers, anything more advanced than the last two which I haven't heard of (and thus not listing explicitly) and anything outside of stdio.h.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

p.s.
The function is called without (so I decided, it wasn't specified. It also wasn't specified it must be a seperate function) any arguments.
It then requests arguments from the user, which it uses for it's calculations.

Originally Posted by jonsoons

What have you got so far? Can you test whether the user has entered anything at all?

jonathan soons

The user is assumed to be cooperating with the program to a degree that he will type a value (doesn't have to be correct) if the program requests it.

If the user doesn't enter a value, however, I can just make a loop that continues until he enters a valid value. So that's pretty trivial.

Originally Posted by jonsoons

Are you allowed to use the greater than (>) and less than (<) operators? They are also trivial to implement. So you have a trivial loop, a couple of useful operators (you probably just need one) and a function we will call "main" which we can define as:
void main(void)
or
int main(void)
if your compiler requires it. The part you are missing is just to add the values that are entered.
That should not be a problem.

Using the < and > operators I can check if a certain number is greater or smaller than another number, but how do I check if a certain DIGIT of a number is smaller than the next DIGIT of the same number (assuming I don't know the number to be entered before writing the code)?

Also, from what I know you can't write "int main(void)", since that means the function returns an integer value and also no value, but that's besides the point.