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    A few questions

    I have a few questions

    Is bool.h ansi standard? as gcc compiler can't find it

    How do i malloc a matrix of [n] rows and [m] colums?
    I know I have to use two nested loops but I don't understand how to do it thoe

    fgets reads all characters into a char array until it reaches an EOF or nl char, if it reaches a nl char it stores it.
    Normaly char arrays I handle don't have nl chars in them, is this a problem?
    I would prefer if all my char arrays were consistent and didn't have nl chars in them, how would I do this?

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    please feel free to answer just one of the questions, not all....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shotgun
    I have a few questions
    Is bool.h ansi standard? as gcc compiler can't find it
    Answer: No.

    How do i malloc a matrix of [n] rows and [m] colums?
    I know I have to use two nested loops but I don't understand how to do it thoe
    Example:
    Code:
    	int i;
    	int **matrix = malloc(NUMBER_OF_ROWS * sizeof(int));
    
    	for ( i = 0; i < NUMBER_OF_ROWS; ++i )
    	{
    		matrix[i] = malloc(NUMBER_OF_COLUMES * sizeof(int));
    	}
    fgets reads all characters into a char array until it reaches an EOF or nl char, if it reaches a nl char it stores it.
    Normaly char arrays I handle don't have nl chars in them, is this a problem?
    I would prefer if all my char arrays were consistent and didn't have nl chars in them, how would I do this?
    Do you treat your char arrays as strings? If so, how do you test for the end of string? If not, you could test your array for a nl (newline) and remove it. There's various ways...

    fgets:
    The fgets() function reads at most n-1 characters from stream into the buffer pointed to by s. No additional characters are read after fgets() has read and transferred a newline character to the buffer. A null character is written immediately after the last character that fgets() reads into the buffer.

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    > please feel free to answer just one of the questions, not all....
    Please feel free to wait for more than 20 minutes before bumping your post with your "urgency"

    > Normaly char arrays I handle don't have nl chars in them, is this a problem?
    The FAQ tells you how to use fgets, and remove the \n if it's important to you.

    > int **matrix = malloc(NUMBER_OF_ROWS * sizeof(int));
    Should be sizeof(int*)
    Better yet,
    int **matrix = malloc(NUMBER_OF_ROWS * sizeof(*matrix) );


    p = malloc ( n * sizeof *p );
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    Is bool.h ansi standard? as gcc compiler can't find it
    To get boolean variables to work in C, either use _Bool (in C99), include <stdbool.h>, or use something like this:
    Code:
    #define bool int
    #define true 1
    #define false 0
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