I am beginning C. I am assuming that characters have a set memory size for all characters.. mostly anyways. If you do not initialize or allocate specific memory for a program, where are getchar() and putchar() characters stored? What would be the character limit of these? In the Ke3rnighan Ritchie book there is an example program that looks basically like echo, Just wondering what would happen if I typed 1000 or more characters in there?
sorry if this is something I overlooked
Diesel
> Just wondering what would happen if I typed 1000 or more
> characters in there?
What do you mean?
putchar( 1000 );
Like that? How about you try it and find out. The worse case scenario is you have to reboot...
Quzah.
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
getchar(); and putchar(); can only receive one character at a time.
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
char *a_variable_string;
char the_char;
a_variable_string="some text";
getchar(a_variable_string);
printf("%c", the_char);
}
Eg. this program would find the first character in the string a_variable_string and print it to the screen.
In this case the value is "S"
if called again it would print "o"
