Hi
I am by some people's standards a newbie to C, and I
am refreshing my memory as to some of its conventions. I would
like any patient soul out there to help out.
I am having a horrible time figuring out argc/argv in a C
program I am writing. I need a program to extract integers and
print the ASCII representations of them. Here is the source of
this very short program under Linux:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <strings.h>
int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
/* this only takes a number as an argument */
int num = 0;
int count = argc;
for (; (count > 0); count--) {
num = strtol(argv[count]);
printf ("%d\t", count);
printf ("%d\t'%c'\n ", num, num);
}
return 0;
}
Here is the command line with the parameters:
$ ascii 97 98 99 100 101
Here is the output of the program:
6 0 ''
5 101 'e'
4 0 ''
3 99 'c'
2 0 ''
1 97 'a'
So, there is a "magic" sixth parameter that appears out of
nowhere. In addition, only every second ascii character is
interpreted. What is interesting is that I get a segfault if I
substitute the two printf's with the line:
printf ("%d\t%d\t'%c'\ n", count, num, num);
Paul King 4 1924
Your count should start from argc - 1 . i.e 5 in this case.
Just so u r clear ...
argc[0] == ascii
argc[1] == 97
....
....
argc[5] == 101
---cheers!
Xog Blog wrote: Hi
I am by some people's standards a newbie to C, and I am refreshing my memory as to some of its conventions. I would like any patient soul out there to help out.
I am having a horrible time figuring out argc/argv in a C program I am writing. I need a program to extract integers and print the ASCII representations of them. Here is the source of this very short program under Linux:
#include <stdio.h> #include <strings.h>
int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { /* this only takes a number as an argument */ int num = 0; int count = argc; for (; (count > 0); count--) { num = strtol(argv[count]); printf ("%d\t", count); printf ("%d\t'%c'\n ", num, num); } return 0; }
Here is the command line with the parameters:
$ ascii 97 98 99 100 101
Here is the output of the program:
6 0 '' 5 101 'e' 4 0 '' 3 99 'c' 2 0 '' 1 97 'a'
So, there is a "magic" sixth parameter that appears out of nowhere. In addition, only every second ascii character is interpreted. What is interesting is that I get a segfault if I substitute the two printf's with the line:
printf ("%d\t%d\t'%c'\ n", count, num, num);
Paul King
Xog Blog <xo*****@hotmai l.com> wrote: #include <stdio.h> #include <strings.h>
This header doesn't exist, nor do you need the one that does exist,
<string.h>. You are missing a header you do need, <stdlib.h>.
int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { int num = 0; int count = argc;
Wrong. Arrays in C are zero-indexed; the highest index of argv is
argc-1, as the previous poster pointed out.
for (; (count > 0); count--) { num = strtol(argv[count]);
Again wrong. strtol takes three arguments; it's a wonder that gcc
(presumably your compiler, given that you are using Linux) accepted
it. It isn't a wonder that your program doesn't work.
<ot>
man strtol and do yourself a favor and invoke gcc thus:
gcc -Wall -ansi -pedantic
</ot>
printf ("%d\t", count); printf ("%d\t'%c'\n ", num, num);
It's a pedant's point, but %c is intended for a character, and you've
passed it an integer.
} return 0; }
--
Christopher Benson-Manica | I *should* know what I'm talking about - if I
ataru(at)cybers pace.org | don't, I need to know. Flames welcome.
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:46:39 +0000, Christopher Benson-Manica wrote: Xog Blog <xo*****@hotmai l.com> wrote:
.... printf ("%d\t", count); printf ("%d\t'%c'\n ", num, num);
It's a pedant's point, but %c is intended for a character, and you've passed it an integer.
It outputs the argumnt as a character. However %c is specified as taking
an int argument. This isn't suprising as a char argument given in a
variable argument list will be promoted to int (or rarely unsigned
int) before being passed. int can be a reasonable type to hold a character
value, e.g. the return type of getc() and argument type of the various
functions in <ctype.h> is int.
Lawrence
Xog Blog wrote on 20/09/05 : I am by some people's standards a newbie to C, and I am refreshing my memory as to some of its conventions. I would like any patient soul out there to help out.
I am having a horrible time figuring out argc/argv in a C program I am writing. I need a program to extract integers and print the ASCII representations of them. Here is the source of this very short program under Linux:
#include <stdio.h> #include <strings.h>
not standard. You meant
#include <string.h>
but it is useless here.
int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { /* this only takes a number as an argument */ int num = 0; int count = argc; for (; (count > 0); count--) {
num = strtol(argv[count]);
Missing <stdlib.h>
Missing parameters.
argv[argc] = NULL by definition.
The decreasing loop is tricky. Dou you really want to start from the
end ?
printf ("%d\t", count); printf ("%d\t'%c'\n ", num, num); } return 0; }
Here is the command line with the parameters:
$ ascii 97 98 99 100 101
Here is the output of the program:
6 0 '' 5 101 'e' 4 0 '' 3 99 'c' 2 0 '' 1 97 'a'
So, there is a "magic" sixth parameter that appears out of nowhere. In addition, only every second ascii character is interpreted. What is interesting is that I get a segfault if I substitute the two printf's with the line:
printf ("%d\t%d\t'%c'\ n", count, num, num);
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
/* this only takes a number as an argument */
int num = 0;
int count = argc - 1;
for (; (count > 0); count--)
{
num = strtol (argv[count], NULL, 10);
printf ("%d\t", count);
printf ("%d\t'%c'\n ", num, num);
}
return 0;
}
5 101 'e'
4 100 'd'
3 99 'c'
2 98 'b'
1 97 'a'
No magic !
--
Emmanuel
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