Thread: Reversing String from .txt ignoring special characters

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    Reversing String from .txt ignoring special characters

    The .txt file says "The Homework is due on Friday. Good$?Luck!"

    Console:
    The Homework 1 is due on Friday. Good$?Luck!
    ehT krowemoH 1 si eud no .yadirF !kcuL?$dooG
    It should be like this: ehT krowemoH si eud no yadirF. dooG$?kcuL!
    I'm trying to get the program to ignore special characters, but am struggling as to where to add an if statement.

    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <string.h>
    #include<stdlib.h>
    
    void reverse_string(char*);
    void reverse_words(char*);
    
    int main()
    {
    
    FILE *fp;
    char Input[255];
    fp = fopen("test.txt", "r");
    fgets(Input, 255, (FILE*)fp);
    printf("%s\n", Input);
    reverse_words(Input);
    printf("%s", Input);
    
      return 0;
    }
    
    void reverse_words(char *s) {
      char b[100], *t, *z;
      int c = 0;
    
      t = s;
    
      while(*t) {                           //processing complete string
        while(*t != ' ' && *t != '\0') {    //extracting word from string
          b[c] = *t;
          t++;
          c++;
        }
        b[c] = '\0';
        c = 0;
    
        reverse_string(b);        // reverse the extracted word
    
        z = b;
    
        while (*z) {    //copying the reversed word into original string
          *s = *z;
          z++;
          s++;
        }
         if (*s == ' ') //Skipping spaces
            {
                s++;
            }
        t = s;                              // pointing to next word
    }
    }
    
    void reverse_string(char *t) {
      int l, c;
      char *e, s;
      l = strlen(t);
      e = t + l - 1;
      for (c = 0; c < l/2; c++) {
        s  = *t;
        *t = *e;
        *e = s;
        t++;
        e--;
        }
    }

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    > fgets(Input, 255, (FILE*)fp);
    1. Remove the cast on the fp. It is totally not necessary.

    > but am struggling as to where to add an if statement.
    Basically everywhere you already compare with space.
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    while(*t != ' '&& *t != '\0')
    if(*s == ' ')

    I tried adding *s/t || '$' to these lines, but that didnt seem to work

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