Thread: Compiles good but fails in execution

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    Smile Compiles good but fails in execution

    HI,

    I am sort of newbie so I cant figure out whats going wrong in this code.

    Objective: To print a square box made out of 'S' i.e. S's are printed as outline of the square.

    the Square has arm length of 5 and the code has been compiled using Devcpp IDE 4.9.9.2 .

    It says no error while compiling but on running this it says .exe has stopped working.Same fate it met on turbo C also. There it says abnormal termination of application.


    Here is the code:

    Code:
    #include<stdio.h>
    
    main()
    
    {
          
          int i, j, x;
          
          x = 'S';
          
          for (i=0; i<5; i++) {
                                        
                                         for(j=0; j<5; j++)  {
       
                                                                        if (i == 0 || i == 4)
                                                                              { 
                                                                                  printf("%s", x); 
                                                                              }
    
                                                                           if (i == 1|| i == 2|| i == 3)
                                                                              { 
                                                                                  if ( j == 0 || j == 4)
                                                                                     { 
                                                                                         printf("%s", x);
                                                                                     } else { 
                                                                                                  printf("\0"); 
                                                                                                }
                                                                               
                                                                              }
    
                                                                           if ( j == 4 && i !=4 )
                                                                              { 
                                                                                  printf("\n"); 
                                                                              }
    
                                                                   }
    
                                       }
    
          return(0);
    
          }

    Also tell the proper position to use clrscr() and getch() in this code.

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    Code:
       printf("%s", x);
    That's your problem.

    %s is for strings.
    %d is for integers.
    %c is for characters.

    You have x as an integer, but assign it a character (perfectly legal by the way), but you try to print it as a string.

    Try either %c or something like putchar instead.


    Quzah.
    Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by quzah View Post
    Code:
       printf("%s", x);
    That's your problem.

    %s is for strings.
    %d is for integers.
    %c is for characters.

    You have x as an integer, but assign it a character (perfectly legal by the way), but you try to print it as a string.

    Try either %c or something like putchar instead.


    Quzah.
    Thanks Quzah!

    Your help was invaluable but man be easy with that sucking and **........ like things.PLz remove them coz they dont make ur signature or whatever you call that pretty

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