Thread: Reading in string and integer arrays

On a slightly different problem, I would like some assistance on how i would code the following programs.

I want to develope a programe that reads a series of characters from a string stored in a text file. The characters are numbers in the text file. Then I need to compute a sum from these numbers. My program should read lines of text from a standard input. Each line will contain a single positive integer.


I have been given the following code to start with.

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>

int main() {
constant size_t maxLineLen =  1024      ;
char line[ maxLineLen];

while(fgets(line, maxLineLen, stdin) != NULL) {
printf("%s", line);
}
}

Given a positive integer, find the sum of its constituent digits.

My mindmap for the sum value, if you forgive the term, is presented below.

1. Read the string from input
2. Convert each of the character in the string into an integer
3. Read each integer into an array, by using a for loop.
4. In the loop assign variable named sum to zero, each iterstion pf the loop will sum the next arrau value to the previous value named sum.
5. Print the sum value

Write a program that finds the greatest difference between integers in a list. The list can contain positive and negative integers

My program should read lines from a standard input. Each line contains a comma seperated list of integers.
For each input list, print to standard output the greatest difference between any two integers in the list. Print each difference on its own line.
Input example 4, -9,-3,0,7,9

1. Repeat steps 1-3 .
2. In the loop calculate the difference between the all other values in the array from the first value.
3. The next iteration will calculate the difference the other values in the array from the second value.
4. Etc.

Thank you for your that info. I am a beginner so forgive the oversimplification.

For the first problem, i.e sum i used the following

Code:

include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>

	const size_t maxLineLen=1032;
	char line[maxLineLen+1];
 int count, sum;
int main(){
  
    while(fgets(line, maxLineLen, stdin) != NULL) {
    	for(count=1; count<maxLineLen;count ++){
    	  sum=0;
    			sum+= &line[count];
        printf("%s", sum);
        
    }
    }
}

Output I get
234
34
4
As oppppsed to the sum of 10

I have used strtol, but having difficulty transferring converted int values into an array

include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>

Code:

	const size_t maxLineLen=1032;
	char line[maxLineLen+1];
char *ptr;
 int count, ret[10], sum;
int main(){
  
    while(fgets(line, maxLineLen, stdin) != NULL) {
    	for(count=1; count<maxLineLen;count ++){
    	  sum=0;
    	  
    	  ret[count] = strtol(stdin, &ptr, 10);
    			sum+= (int)ret[count];
       printf("%s", sum);
        
    }
    
    
    }
}

Originally Posted by ronanmac01

I have used strtol, but having difficulty transferring converted int values into an array

include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>

Code:

	const size_t maxLineLen=1032;
	char line[maxLineLen+1];
char *ptr;
 int count, ret[10], sum;
int main(){
  
    while(fgets(line, maxLineLen, stdin) != NULL) {
    	for(count=1; count<maxLineLen;count ++){
    	  sum=0;
    	  
    	  ret[count] = strtol(stdin, &ptr, 10);
    			sum+= (int)ret[count];
       printf("%s", sum);
        
    }
    
    
    }
}

Can you explain what code I would need to incorporate into this program so I can get it to work

Does the atoi() function not leave you with unpredictable results.

Hi thank you for your assistance again. Before I develop code to summate each digit of the number , I will need to assign each digit to an array.

As v is a const integer I will need to convert it to an array, I am not sure how to do this, i presume I would pass for loop through strtol() function.
My mindmap would be.
String to char array, each member in array is converted to long int via strtol(), then converted numeric is assigned to an empty array.
I would then have an empty sum array which fills in each increment in a for loop.
Something like
[code] for(i=0, i<sizeof(buff), i++);
sum += vnumeric_array[i];
[code\n]

Code:

 Thank you for your reply and suggestion. I have developed my code and does sucessfully calculate, and print the sum of intgers in the integer array.
However I would like to read in string using fgets, can you share what code would need to be included?
I have removed the fgets and strtol functions and created a function named convert(c) that loops through each character of the array converting each to an integer.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
int* convert(char* c)
{
    int len=strlen(c),i;
    int *a=(int*)malloc(len*sizeof(int));
    for(i=0;i<len;i++)
        a[i]=c[i]-48;
    return a;
   
}
int main(int argc, char const *argv[])
{
    int i;
    char c[100];

    int sum=0;
    scanf("%s",c);
    int *a=convert(c);
        int len=strlen(c);
    for(i=0;i<len;i++){
        sum+= a[i];
   
        }
        printf("%d", sum);
    free(a);
   
    return 0;
}