C Primer Plus®, Third Edition

Programming Exercises

1. Design a function that fetches the next n characters from input, including blanks, tabs, and newlines.

2. Modify the function in Exercise 1 so that it stops after n characters or after the first blank, tab, or newline, whichever comes first. (Don't just use scanf().)

3. Design a function that fetches the first word from a line of input and discards the rest of the line. Define a word as a sequence of characters with no blanks, tabs, or newlines in it.

4. Design a function that searches the specified string for the first occurrence of a specified character. Have the function return a pointer to the character if successful, and a null if the character is not found in the string. (This duplicates the way that the library strchr() function ...