Questions tagged [string]
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Segmentation fault with overwriting chars
I tried overwriting cipupperalphabet[j] from a A to a B, but it has caused a segmentation fault.
string upperalphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
string cipupperalphabet = upperalphabet;
int j = ...
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Find hex values inside a string in C?
I have a long string "given_string", and I'm trying to find hex values within that string. Here's a simplified example:
/* Find a sub-string in a given string: */
char * given_string = &...
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When I multiply my array by 2 it doesn't give expected value
Also, please when I try to add "firstnumsum", it doesn't give expected value and I don't know what to do.
#include <cs50.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include &...
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incompatible pointer types passing 'string' (aka 'char *') to parameter of type 'string *' (aka 'char **')
Im writing a funtion that takes string as a argument and gives back a integer.
This function counts lenght of a string entered at the command line argument.
I get an error :" incompatible pointer ...
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i don't know what's wrong with my code. Trying to convert from string to long
INPUT
int main(void)
{
long long cardnumber, calc;
string credit[0];
string nonnumeric;
//long long calc = card number;
int countcardcharacters = 0;
long long c;
//user input
do
{
credit[0]= ...
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Readability(checking punctuation to determine number of sentences)
here is my code; trying to detect punctuation (!, ., ?) to determine the amount of sentences, however keep getting error messages. would appreciate any help. my code and error messages are below;
#...
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How to swap strings?
The main problem comes when we swap strings of unknown lengths. Lets say we have two strings assigned to two variables say a, b. Now if I use a temporary string say c, and use strcpy(c,a), then use ...
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sans trailing line ending?
I can't seem to find an explanation for the phrase "sans trailing line ending"?
From what I can gather, line ending refers to CR (carriage return) and NL (newline) but I still can't grasp the meaning ...
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String being replaced by garbage before being printed
I have this code:
#include <cs50.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
string increment_str();
int main() {
string s = increment_str("xyz");
printf("String: %s\n", s);
}...
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warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘string {aka char*}’ [-Wwrite-strings]
I'm a complete beginner who just commenced on the CS50 course through EDX. While tryin out the walkthrough lessons in the CS50 IDE (clou9), I'm getting the following warning
"TEST.C: In function ‘...
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Sentinel value in arrays
Why don't we use the backslash zero in integer arrays to save memory or prevent overflow like character arrays or strings?
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Parse Function: Extra characters in string after using memcpy
My parse function works for the root directory, but for subsequent requests for, say, cat.jpg, the memcpy function seems to copy an extra \220 into both requesttarget and HTTPversion (so, for instance,...
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Why can't I create an array of strings?
I have this habit of first trying out all the exercises of the book then going on to psets. I am on chapter 7, arrays. the question was to make a program of some sort of voting counter and instead of ...
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Problem using a function to manipulate strings in pset6 server
This given code in server.c gets the slice of string up to an appearance of \n.
const char* haystack = request;
char* needle = strstr(haystack, "\r\n");
if (needle == NULL)
{
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String validity check when string is command line argument?
We check the string validity when we use the get_string() function.
Example:
if (p != NULL)
Are we also supposed to check string validity when the string is entered as a command line argument?
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array of strings
input :
T - test cases
and then next T lines. Each line contains a word(string).
I want to take them as an input and store them in a 2D array, like
char string[T][ ];
example input :
3
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