I want to apply the reverse function to each word that the user enters, for example when I input:
God bless me
It should return
doG sselb em
the current code just keeps on waiting for input from stdin, what I want is to terminate right after I print enter
Code:int main() { char word[100]; while(1){ scanf("%s", word); reverse(word); printf("%s ", word); } printf("\n"); return 0; }
With a char array[], you could do something like:
use getchar(), and have the while((array[i++]=getchar()) != ' '), which should signal the end of each word. Then decrement i while you print out the char's, back to i = zero.
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are you saying I should set i first to the length of the string?
is there no other easy way to do this, like my code above does the job.. but it just don't know when to stop..
keeps on reading from stdin, while I only want it to read from stdin only once, which is till I press enter
I mean I know how to do this the hard way, but I am challanged to do this with as less effort as I can using only the provided C functions
Last edited by -EquinoX-; 03-28-2009 at 05:28 PM.
while (1) tests for the truth of 1, which one is always true -- so we call while (1) an infinite loop. The usual way out of an infinite loop is to use break.
There is nothing in the OP to break the infinite loop.
C programming resources:
GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
The C Book -- nice online learner guide
Current ISO draft standard
CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge
I am aware of that as well... that's why I am asking what should I change so that when the user presses enter then it breaks out of the loop. Or maybe another off topic question.. is there a function in C that could extract words by words from a line of strings?Originally Posted by MK27
Alright: if I understand you correctly, you are having a problem grabbing an input string with spaces in it using scanf, so you figured you could get around that by calling scanf over and over?
That is a Bad Hack (as opposed to a good hack, also possible, so don't feel bad for trying, because if scanf were the only input command available in C, you might be on the right track). But what you really want here is fgets:
This will take a whole line, spaces, punctuation, the newline, etc, and add a null terminator (a la the documentation, fgets will supposedly stop reading at 127 bytes, one less than the size in the argument, to allow for the null terminator it adds).Code:#include <stdio.h> int main() { char buffer[128]; puts("Enter a sentance and hit enter"); fgets(buffer,128,stdin); printf("%s",buffer); return 0; }
C programming resources:
GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
The C Book -- nice online learner guide
Current ISO draft standard
CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge
No.
This is completely untested code, and appears more than you want, anyway. Perhaps better, would be to use scanf() to get a whole string? scanf("%200s", charArray);Code://something like this: char goOn; i = 0; do { if(c == '\n') { while(i) { printf("%c", CharArray[i]); CharArray[i--] = '\0'; } } else { CharArray[i++] = c; continue; } i = 0; printf("\nEnter Another Word [y/n] ? "); scanf(" %c", &goOn); }while((goOn != 'n' && goOn != 'N') )
Instead of a word, you get the whole sentence. Make Array large so it can't overflow it within reason.
That would simplify the above.
what would I do after getting the whole string? I want to reverse each words as I encounter it... basically when the program starts I want it to show out , please enter the string to be reversed.. then the user enters the string and hit enter and then it shows the string that is reversed... if I use fgets then I'll get the string.. but I'll have to decompose it per words by words
