Thread: String formatting

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    String formatting

    char word[30] = "hello||how||are||you||doing||there"


    how can i break the string and display the following output ??

    hello|
    |how|
    |are|
    |you|
    |doing|
    |there

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    Neglecting any invalid input, you could simply traverse the whole string and preint each character 1 by 1. If you encounter a |, print a newline then skip the following character (assuming they always comes in pairs of 2).
    Code:
    char* Pointer = word;
    while(*Pointer != '\0')
    {
      if(*Pointer == '|')
      {
        printf("\n");
        Pointer++; //Skips extra character
      }
      else
      {
        printf("%c", *Pointer);
      }
      Pointer++;
    }
    Note: Code has not been tested.
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    Code:
    int main() {
    	char *word = "hello||how||are||you||doing||there";
    	
    	while (*word != '\0') {
    		if (*word != '|') {
    			printf("%c", *word);
    			word++;
    		} else if (*word == '|') {
    			printf("%c", *word);
    			word++;
                            printf("\n%c", *word);
                            word++;
    		}
    	}
                    return 0;
    }
    Last edited by OOPboredom; 03-17-2004 at 09:27 AM.

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    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    
    int main(void)
    {
      char word[] = "hello||how||are||you||doing||there";
      char* Pointer = word;
      while(*Pointer != '\0')
        {
          printf("%c%s", *Pointer, *Pointer == '|' && *(Pointer+1) == '|' ? "\n" : "");
          Pointer++;
        }
      return 0;
    }
    Last edited by major_blagger; 03-17-2004 at 09:19 AM.

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    Great solution major. Reminds me of a professor in college that took a simple solution to a problem and wrote a small portion of code for it in C.

    Each time through he would re-write the code and simplify or concatendate certain parts of the code until he got to only 2 lines of code for a solution that had 10 lines originally.

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    ... or if you can live without the | characters....:

    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <string.h>
    
    int main(void)
    {
      char word[] = "hello||how||are||you||doing||there";
      char *p;
      
      p = strtok (word, "|");
      
      while (p)
      {
        puts (p);
        p = strtok (NULL, "|");
      }  
      
      return(0);
      
    }
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