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Pset 5 Speller Linked List Nodes

I thought I got pointers but I don't fully understand a function that gets a new node for a linked list. I understand the theory behind Hash tables and chaining with linked lists but when it comes to ...
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Pset5 with linked list: head node creation

I am having some headaches about pset5. Before tackling hashtables and tries, I have been trying to solve the problem with a single linked list to make it simpler. To do this I have defined a couple ...
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sizeof() syntax error with node pointer

Is there something wrong with my syntax? Won't compile, apparently because of line: sizeof(node->sprouts) / sizeof(node) above node defined as follows: typedef struct node { bool is_word; struct ...
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SPELLER-Create Global struct definition and global struct instance

I am working on SPELLER and am stuck on the load function. I have no errors the way it's written but the problem is in this code's location. typedef struct node { ...
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incompatible integer to pointer conversion returning 'int' from a function with result type 'struct node *' with custom create_node function

Clang returns an incompatible integer to pointer conversion returning 'int' from a function with result type 'struct node *' error when my create_node function checks whether the ptr malloc returns ...
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what is a node and what is an element in HTML?

Silly question i know, but i'm trying to understand the basics of HTML reference words so that I know what people are talking about. Please help! 1) My question is, what is a node and what is an ...
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Pset5 incomplete definition of type struct node

EDIT: I've changed my struct to match what's in the video as thus in my header file: typedef struct{ bool end; struct node* child[27]; }node; And in my C file when I do: if(trav->child[...
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pset5 root node not freed

It looks like my unload function is not working properly. Valgrind shows 0 errors, but when I print out the address of my root node, it is not NULL. Hence my unload function (which returns true if ...
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pset5 root node defitnion (trie)

I'm trying to figure out where/how to define the root node of my trie in dictionary.c. I have declared my struct node as follows: typedef struct node { bool is_word; struct node* children[27]...
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How to add a new node in the linked list

Now that I am done with pset5 I would like to understand how to add a new node to a linked list. While building the pset, I blindly used Zamyla's guidelines on how to add a new node to a linked list ...
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Pset5: Misunderstanding tries and method to assign letter to an array inside a struct

Before posting, I've searched a lot here and there on the Internet to find the answers to my questions myself and I did code something that eventually works. My issue is that I've re-rewrote some ...
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Dynamic string length allocation in new_node->word; array type char [46] is not assignable

I am trying to make my node size dynamically change with the size of the word from the dictionary in the load(dictionary) function. I understand that the warning means I am trying to assign a pointer ...
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Check Value at Children[i] in Trie

In the tutorial video Zamyla states to "check the value at children[i]" Which will return NULL or not NULL. What does check the value mean? Cheers Adam
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