Thread: need help not too urgent

so here the deal im pretty new at this programming lark and one of my lectures set the task of designing a puzzle block game (DONT WORRY NOT ASKING ANYONE TO DO IT).

using an array of 16 you got to rearrange to array so that its in ascending order, and one of the elements is a gap so orginally i set it to be zero, now here comes the intresting part when you reprint the block using a function you got to change the 0 to be an X so i did an if statement to rectify that problem

now i had an idea to change the int array of 16 to make it a char array and ive changed to rest of the program to allow this but the printing out of the array wont work because some of the numbers are double digit and that an char can only hold one number ie the character '12' will only print out '2' because of that fact mentioned above. i will show the code in a second but what im hoping to find out if the is a way of using some thing like atoi that will convert the integer value for the double digit numbers coz if there is no way to do that i will probably just go back to the integer array that i had in the beginning

Code:

#include <stdio.h> 
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
char print_board (char array[16]) ; //function to print out the board

char board[16] = {'1','2','3','4','5','6','8','12','9','10','7','X','13','14','11','15'};

int main (void)
{

print_board(board);

}


char print_board (char array[16]) 
{
int index = 0;
	printf("\n\n\t");
	for(index = 0;index<=15;index++)
	{
		if (index% 4 == 0)
		{
			printf("\n\t");
		}
		if ((board[index] >='10') && (board[index]!='X'))
			printf("%c   ", board[index]);

		else
		printf ("%c    ", board[index]);
		
		
	}
	return board[16];
}

that is only a selected sample
also you may find that this is very similar to something that i posted before but i know now that i asked the wrong question earlier

'12' isn't a character, it's a string. Try using 12 (without the single quotes) instead.

no i just took out the single quotes and all the single didgit numbers printed fine as usual but i got a load of symbols where the double digit numbers should be i also just tried to change the %c to %s for the string but no go and error about linking

that sounds like ill give it a try but later on in the program im swapping the elements and at the moment (before the string bit by itsme86 ) its

Code:

             temp = board[pos1];
	(board[pos1] = board[pos2]);
	(board[pos2] = temp);

the error is coming in the second and third line of that about the equals is left operand or something along those lines would that be to do with the string or could that be something else in the program

so here me taking back

that sounds like ill give it a try but later on in the program im swapping the elements and at the moment (before the string bit by itsme86 ) its

Code:

             temp = board[pos1];
	(board[pos1] = board[pos2]);
	(board[pos2] = temp);

the error is coming in the second and third line of that about the equals is left operand or something along those lines would that be to do with the string or could that be something else in the program

because im stupid and ive got it to work (nearly but i can work the rest out)

Since your board array now contains strings, you'll have to use strcpy() to copy them:

Code:

	strcpy( temp,  board[pos1] );
	strcpy(board[pos1], board[pos2] );
	strcpy(board[pos2], temp );

Or you could use a for-loop.

i didnot think of that so would that mean that i would have to when searching the array which before i including of strings i had

Code:

for (index = 0; index <=15; index++)
{
       if (board[index] == num);
               break;
}

where i had num to be an integer being passed in to the array, should i change it to be a a string of size 3 and do strcmp to make that code look like this

Code:

for (loop same as above)
if (strcmp (board[index], num == 0)
{
      break;
}

would that do the same thing

sorry if it looks like im lazy its just i have to go home and try it as my floppy disk im using is not working and i want as many ideas as possible