Thread: replace the "*" in the above string with " ", a single space character using ANSI C??

Originally Posted by hardik

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
int main()
{
 char *foo = "Charlotte*NC*is*a*really*cool*place*to*work*and*play"; 
 char buf[100];
 int l = strlen(foo);
int i;

 for(i=0;i<l;i++)
 {
  
        if(*foo=='*')
   buf[i] = ' ';
  else
   buf[i] = *foo;
        *foo++;
  
 }
 for(i=0;i<l;i++)
  printf("%c",buf[i]);
  printf("\n");
  getchar ();
}

check it out guys, how u like it?

Don't increase the foo pointer, or else you'll lose what it's pointing to. And if you null-terminate buf, you'll be able to print it as a string, ie

Code:

printf(buf)