Thread: Help!!!!!!

What have you tried?

Originally Posted by MoZak

Hey guys i have an excersise which asks to invert a word which we read (gets or scanf )
without using any function but with array pointers(*point)...as an example i add "hello" and it should make it "olleh"..Pls help me :S
Thx in advance and sorry for my english..

Well...

1. First of all, I hope your instructor eventually teaches you that using gets and scanf are particularly troublesome for getting input strings. The reason being that one can easily overwrite the space allocated to hold the string. There is no good way to limit the user input. Using fgets is a fairly simple way to get the input, while at the same time limiting the length. I would suggest you use fgets, and if your teacher says anything, give him a lecture about teaching unsafe coding practices. Or not. He might give you a crappy mark, but whatever.

Read more about gets being bad:

• cprogramming.com FAQ - Why gets() is bad/buffer overflows
• comp.lang.c C-FAQ - Why does everyone say not to use gets()?
• cpwiki FAQ - gets

And finally, from man 3 gets (Linux):

Never use gets(). Because it is impossible to tell without knowing the data in advance
how many characters gets() will read, and because gets() will continue to store charac-
ters past the end of the buffer, it is extremely dangerous to use. It has been used to
break computer security. Use fgets() instead.

2. As for the assignment: where is your attempt?

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At the very least, you could do a search on reversing a string. Trust me, you are not the first person to come through here with this question.

At this stage we just use gets and scanf that's why i mentioned them...Since now i just tried to make an array and put in each cell a single letter,for example if i add "hello" it should be like this
[h][e][l][l][o] so i can switch the letters like a[i]==a[5] etc...I am newbie at programming thats why i asked for help...As for the assignment it is just an excersice for practise nothing more..



*EDIT* We don't have to use functions of basic library,this means i can use strlen ,length,etc.???