I found a site with some complicated C puzzles. Right now I'm dealing with this:
The following is a piece of C code, whose intention was to print a minus sign 20 times. But you can notice that, it doesn't work.
#include <stdio.h> int main() { int i; int n = 20; for( i = 0; i < n; i-- ) printf("-"); return 0; }
Well fixing the above code is straight-forward. To make the problem interesting, you have to fix the above code, by changing exactly one character. There are three known solutions. See if you can get all those three.
I cannot figure out how to solve. I know that it can be fixed by changing --
to ++
, but I can't figure out what single character to change to make it work.
Here is one solution:
for( i = 0; -i < n; i-- ) printf("-");
Here is a second one, thanks to Mark for helping me!
for( i = 0; i + n; i-- ) printf("-");
And Mark also had the third one which is
for( i = 0; i < n; n-- ) printf("-");
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