Thread: Beginner with C: While Loop Question

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    Beginner with C: While Loop Question

    Hi all,

    I had recently been given an assignment, in which I was asked to write a C program that1. prompts the user to enter two character values;2. prints out the sequence of characters between the two values (inclusive). I solved this with the following code:

    Code:
     #include <stdio.h>
    int main() {
        char A = 0, B = 0;
        printf("enter two values: ");
        scanf("%c%c", &A, &B);
        while(A <= B) printf("%c %c ", A++,);
        return 0;
    }
    Now I have been asked to add a feature in which the two characters are entered is not significant. Therefore,regardless of whether the higher or lower character is the first entered the sequence isstill displayed in ascending order from the lowest to the highest.


    Could anyone give me some tips on how to achieve this?

    Thanks in advance!

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    Think about your loop condition. You use something to compare two characters. So, maybe compare and find the greater of the two. If A > B, swap them and print.
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    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    int main() {
        char A = 0, B = 0;
        printf("enter two values: ");
        scanf("%c %c", &A, &B);  
        while(B < A) printf("%c ", B++);
        while(A <=B) printf("%c ", A++);    
        return 0;
    }

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    Are you sure that that's what you want? It should be more like:

    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    int main() {
        char A = 0, B = 0;
        printf("enter two values: ");
        scanf("%c %c", &A, &B);  
        if (A > B) {
             char temp = A;
             A = B;
             B = temp;
        }
        while(A <= B) printf("%c ", A++);    
        return 0;
    }
    "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled

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