Printing Arrays from Structs
- by Carlll
I've been stumped for a few hours on an exercise where I must use functions to build up an array inside a struct and print it. In my current program, it compiles but crashes upon running.
#define LIM 10
typedef char letters[LIM];
typedef struct {
int counter;
letters words[LIM];
} foo;
int main(int argc, char **argv){
foo apara;
structtest(apara, LIM);
print_struct(apara);
}
int structtest(foo *p, int limit){
p->counter = 0;
int i =0;
for(i; i< limit ;i++){
strcpy(p->words[p->counter], "x");
//only filling arrays with 'x' as an example
p->counter ++;
}
return;
I do believe it's due to my incorrect usage/combination of pointers. I've tried adjusting them, but either an 'incompatible types' error is produced, or the array is seemingly blank
}
void print_struct(foo p){
printf(p.words);
}
I haven't made it successfully up to the print_struct stage, but I'm unsure whether p.words is the correct item to be calling. In the output, I would expect the function to return an array of x's.
I apologize in advance if I've made some sort of grievous "I should already know this" C mistake. Thanks for your help.
