Thread: strcpy not working as intended? (5 lines of code)

Originally Posted by camel-man

Why do you have the while loop? Why cant you just use the strcpy?

Yeah i realized that the while loop involving fgets is completely out there, and isn't correct.

Solution calls for:

char temp[80], reverse[80], *ptr;

Use strtok to get the first part of the string and save it to the ptr pointer. Then using sprintf, copy it to the reverse array.
Use strpy to copy reverse into another array, temp. Repeat. Now the key to printing it backwards is to keep using sprintf, with ptr in front of
temp.

reverse = sprintf("%s %s", ptr, temp);

That's why im using a while loop.
Hopefully i implement this correctly

Code:

Code:

void reverse(char name[],char reverse_name[],char temp[]);


int main()
{
char name[80];
char reverse_name[80];
char temp[80];
printf("Input: ");
fgets(name,80,stdin);


reverse(name,reverse_name,temp);


return 0;
}


void reverse(char name[],char reverse_name[],char temp[])
{

char *ptr=strtok(name, " \n");                                    //Use strtok to get the first part of the string and save it to the ptr pointer. Then using sprintf, copy it to the reverse array. 
reverse_name=sprintf("%s,ptr);

strcpy(temp,reverse);                                                                                                             // Use strcpy to copy reverse into another array, temp. Repeat. Now the key to printing it backwards is to keep using sprintf, with ptr in front of
                                                                                                                                                        temp.
                                                          









 printf("%s\n",temp);
}

I wish i can see this in action.

I'm making lots of progress thanks guys, but here's more tidbits of code

Code:

void reverse(char name[],char reverse_name[],char temp[])
{

strcpy(temp,name);           //copy whatever user inputs into temp array
char *ptr=strtok(temp, " \n");      // split input. e.g. bees and birds into bees\0and\0birds\0


  while(strtok(NULL, " \n")!='\0')    // if input is "birds and bees" it starts off at "and",and should print it to reverse_name array. Am i using sprintf correctly in this case? 
                                              //removing the while loop and its contents fixes Seg fault error. Weird
{
 sprintf("%s",reverse_name);

}


 printf("%s\n",reverse_name);


}

Basically i want to store the string from the while loop into an array