how to get random questions picked by machine in C [closed] - c

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i am making a program in C where i ask the user 10 questions and i have a list of 20 questions. I want the machine to randomly pick and ask any 10 questions. Can anyone help me how to do that?

As an outline:
struct Q {
char *q;
int hasbeenselected;
} q[20];
int n;
//
// fill q with your questions and set hasbeenselected to 0;
srand(time(NULL));
for (int i=0; i<10; i++) {
do {
n= rand()%20;
} while (q[n].hasbeenselected==1);
// now ask question q[n].q
q[n].hasbeenselected= 1;
}

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I know strings end with '/0' in C. While I'm dynamically allocating memory for a string, how do I handle that?
Also, how would you print out a dynamically allocated string? Because I've tried the regular way to print out a string and it did not work.
For the first question, I tried:
int len;
scanf("%d", &len);
char* str = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char)*len);
for (int i = 0; i<len; ++i){
scanf("%c", (str+i));
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For the second question, I tried
printf("%s", *str);

How does the code that prints array elements works? [closed]

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This code prints the array elements, but I can't understand how does k[x-1] gives the array elements.
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
int x[]={2,4,6,8,10},k=1;
while (k<=5)
{
printf ("%3d",k[x-1]);
k++;
}
return 0;
}
Array indexes start at 0 in C. An array like int x[]={2,4,6,8,10} will have a value x[0]=2 and so forth. Typically, when iterating through an array, a convention like this is used:
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
printf("%3d",x[i]);
Since the code you provided begins the indexing at 1, you have to subtract one to fetch the proper element.

Incrementing constant variable [closed]

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#include <stdio.h>
#define number 0
main()
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
number++;
}
printf("Number is: %d", number);
}
No, 0 is substitued for number by the preprocessor before the compiler gets to work.
The compiler issues a diagnostic when it sees 0++;

Why does this print 1? [closed]

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#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int var=0;
for(; var++; printf("%d",var));
printf("%d", var);
}
Please explain to me this C code. How is the output 1?
You might be confused because of the wrong code indentation. Your code is:
for(; var++; printf("%d",var))
;
printf("%d", var);
So you always get the output of the second printf. As var is initialized to 0 and var++ (the for-condition) is always executed, you end up with var==1.

convert 4*4 int array into 2*2 int array in c [closed]

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I have a 4*4 array-
int arr[4][4] = {{1,2,3,4},
{5,6,7,8},
{9,10,11,12},
{13,14,15,16}};
want to convert this into 2*2 array -
int final[2][2];
that should have
final[0][0] = (arr[0][0]+arr[0][1]+arr[1][0]+arr[1][1])/4;
final[0][1] = (arr[0][2]+arr[0][3]+arr[1][2]+arr[1][3])/4;
Is it possible to extract the value from array using lookup table.
Thanks in advance
As has been well commented, you basically have this, but just for completeness:
for ( i=0; i<2; i++ )
for ( j=0; j<2; j++ )
final[i][j] = (arr[i*2][j*2]+arr[i*2][j*2+1]+arr[i*2+1][j*2]+arr[i*2+1][j*2+1])/4;

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