I am trying to make a program that takes 10 numbers as input and outputs them in reverse order using pointers in C.
#include<stdio.h>
#define N 10
int array[N]; //Global variable
int main(void) {
int j;
int i;
printf("Enter 10 numbers: ");
for (i=0;i<N;i++) {
scanf("%d",(array+(4*i))); //Works
}
for (j=N-1;j<0;j--) {
printf("%d",array[j]); //Doesn't print, using *(array+j*4) doesn't
//print also
}
printf("\n");
printf("%d\n",*(array)); //Works so scanf works
printf("%d\n",*(array+4)); //Works so scanf works
return 0;
}
I have tried a making a seperate function for the two for loops but still it doesn't work. I want to know WHY this for-loop doesn't print but the two printfs below it print.
EDIT:
My new code is
#include<stdio.h>
#define N 10
int array[N]; //Global variable
int main(void) {
int j;
int i;
printf("Enter 10 numbers: ");
for (i=0;i<N;i++) {
scanf("%d",(array+i)); //Works
}
for (j=N-1;j<0;j--) { //it is supposed to be j>=0 or j>0 WHY
printf("%d",array[j]); //Doesn't print, using *(array+j) doesn't
//print also
}
printf("\n");
printf("%d\n",*(array)); //Works so scanf works
printf("%d\n",*(array+1)); //Works so scanf works
return 0;
}
Thanks to all the posts, I have a better understanding of how indexing works in C now but the printf doesn't work still unless I change the for-loop conditions(see above). WHY doesn't it work with the initial conditions but with the latter conditions.
Whoa!
This:
scanf("%d",(array+(4*i))); //Works
is very wrong and is overwriting memory! Why are you multiplying the index? You don't need to do that, C can index by itself. It should just be:
scanf("%d", &array[i]);
You want the address of the i
:th array member, so say that, don't beat around the bush with strange multiplications.
If you really want to be "using pointers", as mentioned in a comment, you can do so:
scanf("%d", array + i);
This works since array
is a pointer to the first element of the array, and adding i
to is a fully valid use of pointer arithmetic; C will compute the proper pointer, knowing the size of each int
in the array.
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