C variable

Hi,

I wanted to use a variable which is not initially assigned to any value, but later in program i want to assign it to zero and than increment it and return the updated value to the same variable,

It would look like this

Code:

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function()
{
    int variable;
          .
          .
  variable =0;
/* I cannot do this because this is actually a header file and will be continuously called, and hence i cannot use the updated value of this variable */

        .
        .
        .
variable++;
return(variable);
}  /* end of function */

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I found the way, thank you