How to read the values stored in a char array? - c

Question

Here I am trying to implement a stack, where only opening braces from a string will be filtered out and stored in an array. The code I wrote stored the values in stackArr array. But whenever I attempt to print out the array, my code fails. It doesn't give any specific error message, it just fails to execute.
I think problem is in the following portion:
i = 0;
while(stackArr[i] != '\0')
{
printf("%c ",stackArr[i]);
i++;
}
Full code :
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
int main()
{
char braces[10];
char stackArr[10];
int front = -1,rear = -1,size = 10;
gets(braces);
checkValidate(&braces,&stackArr,&front,&rear,size);
}
void checkValidate(char *braces,char *stackArr,int *front,int *rear,int size)
{
int i = 0;
while(braces[i] != '\0')
{
if((braces[i] == '(') || (braces[i] =='{') || (braces[i] =='['))
{
push(braces[i],&stackArr,&front,&rear,size);
}
i++;
}
//print(&front,&rear,size,*stackArr);
i = 0;
while(stackArr[i] != '\0')
{
printf("%c ",stackArr[i]);
i++;
}
}
void push (char val,char *stackArr,int *front,int *rear,int size)
{
if(isFull(*front,*rear,size))
{
printf("your string is larger that valid size\n");
}
else
{
if(isEmpty(*front,*rear))
{
*front = 0;
}
*rear = (*rear+1) % size;
stackArr[*rear] = val;
/*printf("%d ",*rear);
printf("%c",stackArr[*rear]);
printf("\n");*/
}
}
int isEmpty(int front,int rear)
{
if(front == -1 && rear == -1)
{
return 1;
}
else
{
return 0;
}
}
int isFull(int front,int rear,int size)
{
if(front == 0 && rear == size -1)
{
return 1;
}
else
{
return 0;
}
}
void print(int *front,int *rear,int size,char *arr)
{
int i;
for(i = *rear;i != *front; i = (i-1)% size)
{
printf("%c\n",arr[i]);
}
printf("%c\n",arr[i]);
}

Answer 1

Your code must produce a lot of warnings on compile, because the functions that you call lack forward declarations. Hence, compiler assumes that all functions that you call have parameters of type int, and that they also return an int. Since your functions take pointers instead, the calls of your functions result in undefined behavior, which is likely leading to a crash.
// Put these declarations in front of main
void checkValidate(char *braces,char *stackArr,int *front,int *rear,int size);
void push (char val,char *stackArr,int *front,int *rear,int size);
int isEmpty(int front,int rear);
int isFull(int front,int rear,int size);
void print(int *front,int *rear,int size,char *arr);
Adding forward declarations should fix this problem. In addition, you need to replace the now-deprecated gets call with a call to fgets, which is safe from buffer overruns.
You also pass pointers to arrays to functions that expect pointers to character. You need to remove & in front of braces and stackArr. Turn on compiler warnings to see all places where this needs to be done.
Finally, your code expects stackArr to be null-terminated, but you never set its elements to zeros. Add char stackArr[10] = {0} to initialize the array to zeros.