Sprintf affecting other string used in formatting? [closed] - c

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For some reason, my sprintf call is affecting the string that I used to format the new string. Here is my code:
string foo = "bar";
char salt[] = "";
sprintf(salt, "%c%c", foo[0], foo[1]);
When I try printing foo after the sprintf, it has no value. If I print it before the sprintf, it's fine.

Your result buffer(salt) is too small to hold the value.
string foo = "bar";
char salt[3] = "";
sprintf(salt, "%c%c", foo[0], foo[1]);

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how can I covert int to char in C [closed]

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I'm trying to covert an int to char. Is there any way to do that?
For example:
{
int i;
char d;
i = 55;
d = i;
printf("%c\n", d);
}
How do I make d = 55?
If you want to put the number 55 into a string, use sprintf
Indeed your example can do what you want.
If you really want to place safe, you may:
d = (char) i;
Try this code segment:
printf("%d\n", d);
char are presented in the memory as binary format wich is equivalent to a number and this number is called a code ascii. when you print the code ascii with "%c" Then it will print the charchter equivalent to this code ascii

Why is this simple code not compiling? [closed]

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I have problem to compile the following lines:
/*This code compiles with error*/
char HeLev1[6];
HeLev1[]="45.0";
/*but this is OK:*/
char HeLev1[6]="45.0";
You cannot assign values to an array. You need to assign values to array elements one-by-one (or, when dealing with strings, using strcpy())
char HeLev1[6];
strcpy(HeLev1, "45.0");
char HeLev2[6];
HeLev2[0] = '4';
HeLev2[1] = '5';
HeLev2[2] = '.';
HeLev2[3] = '0';
HeLev2[4] = '\0'; /* properly "terminate" the string */
Note that in your code, the OK part, you have an array initialization, not assignment.
Also note that, in both cases above, the 6th element (HeLev1[5] or HeLev2[5]) has an undefined value (garbage).
you can assign whole values to an array only while initialization. like these are correct forms,
char HeLev1[6]="45.0";
int array[3]={1,2,3};
char HeLev1[]="45.0";
int array[]={1,2,3};
but once you have skipped this part. you have to assign element by element. like,
char HeLev2[6];
HeLev2[0] = '4';
HeLev2[1] = '5';
HeLev2[2] = '.';
HeLev2[3] = '0';
HeLev2[4] = '\0'; /* properly "terminate" the string */
or you can use memcpy or strcpy.

C code printing hex values but very different [closed]

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int main() {
int i;
int four_ints[4];
char* c;
for(i=0; i<4; i++) four_ints[i] = 18;
c = (char*)four_ints;
for(i=0; i<4; i++) c[i] = 24;
printf("%x\n", four_ints[2]);
}
So if I print like that it will simply print 12.
However if I change it to printf("%x\n", four_ints[11])
It suddenly prints 28ac90
Why would it do that?
In the second statement printf("%x\n", four_ints[11]) you access a position of the array that was not reserved for your program (int four_ints[4]). That is you have no guarantees of what is stored on a not reserved portion of memory.

C initialise 3D array with values [closed]

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I'm trying to initialise all elements of a 3D array "A". The array consists of 2000x100x4 integer elements of the 3D array and is stored in row-major order. Each index at position [i,j,k] in "A" must be initialised with the value i*i*i + j*j*j.
How can I do this using for loops? Any suggestions? Thanks.
for(i=0;i<2000;i++)
for(j=0;j<100;j++)
for(k=0;k<4;k++)
A[i][j][k]= (i*i*i) + (j*j*j);
I hope I understood your question correctly. Or were you looking for something else?
It's not something hard to do:
int A[2000][100][4];
int i,j,k;
for (i=0;<2000;i++)
{
for (j=0;j<100;j++)
{
for (k=0;k<4;k++)
{
A[i][j][k] = i*i*i + j*j*j;
}
}
}

Why does passing the result of printf to another printf work? [closed]

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How does the following code work?
void main()
{
printf("%d", printf("earth"));
}
This gives as output: earth5.
The return value of printf is the number of characters printed. The inner printf is called first. Equivalent to:
int rc = printf("earth");
printf("%d", rc);
This is absolutely fine :-)
The print("earth") outputs earth and return 5 (the number of characters printed).
The other printf gets the 5 as a parameter and outputs it as an integer (because of the %d)
%d is expecting an integer to print it. printf returns the number of printed chars, and you're printing a 5 char string.
It evaluates first the inner print to find out how many character were printed and then it evaluates the outer one printing 5.

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