Question about sub functions

[warthog89]

Im pretty new at this, so i need some help

For a project we needed to create a "main.c" with three functions

-Function 1 gets the data

-Function 2 calculates the data

-Function 3 prints the data

The problem im having is with Function 2....

In function 2, i had to do calculations with the info, then i had to call 2 other functions from Function 2 to do more calculations.

Ive returned the the calculations from Function 2 to main.c, to be printed in function 3, but i dont know how to return the other two to main.c

my teacher is horrible, im basically trying to learn this on my own, so any help would be appreciated.

[quzah]

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Quzah.

[Adak]

Im pretty new at this, so i need some help

For a project we needed to create a "main.c" with three functions

-Function 1 gets the data

-Function 2 calculates the data

-Function 3 prints the data

The problem im having is with Function 2....

In function 2, i had to do calculations with the info, then i had to call 2 other functions from Function 2 to do more calculations.

Ive returned the the calculations from Function 2 to main.c, to be printed in function 3, but i dont know how to return the other two to main.c

my teacher is horrible, im basically trying to learn this on my own, so any help would be appreciated.

/* add prototypes here */


int main() {
GetData();
CalcData();
PrintIt();

while((c = getchar()) != '\n');
return 0;
}

CalcData() can call it's own sub-functions, as you've stated. Those sub functions can ALSO be called in a loop of main's, right after the call to CalData, and thus return their data that way.

How you return the data depends on what the data is, and the overall design of the problem, and your program.

Post up the relevant parts of your code, and explain anything not obvious OK?

Adak

[VirtualAce]

There are no sub functions in C.

[linux_punk]

Im pretty new at this, so i need some help

For a project we needed to create a "main.c" with three functions

-Function 1 gets the data

-Function 2 calculates the data

-Function 3 prints the data

The problem im having is with Function 2....

In function 2, i had to do calculations with the info, then i had to call 2 other functions from Function 2 to do more calculations.

Ive returned the the calculations from Function 2 to main.c, to be printed in function 3, but i dont know how to return the other two to main.c

my teacher is horrible, im basically trying to learn this on my own, so any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

U have the following options to send back the values calcualted in subfunctions of func2 to main.c
1. Use global variables
2. Pass addresses from main.c to subfunctions thru function2 and the use them in main.c after they have been updated in subfunctions..which u can confirm after the call returns from function2.


And who said there are no subfunctions in C???

[VirtualAce]

And who said there are no subfunctions in C???

I did. We call them functions. BASIC calls a function that does not return a value a SUB rather than a FUNCTION. In C we call them functions and in C++ we often call them methods....although that's more of a MS habit that I'm not too keen on. Sub function is a loaded word since sub comes from the days of sub routines and when you move to C++ if you are still calling them sub functions meaning sub routine functions, you'll find that terminology just does not fit into object oriented programming. Sub routines come from the days of unstructured code which is exactly what BASIC is.