C Programming Essentials

Appendix C. Some Useful Functions from stdlib.h

The header file “stdlib.h”, which stands for “standard library”, is a mixture of many different types of functions that are useful for day-to-day programming purposes. Unfortunately, not many learners are aware of the wealth of functions that lie here. Broadly, the functions in “stdlib.h” could be classified into five groups:

• Storage allocation

• Algorithms

• Integer functions

• Text conversion

• Interacting with the environment

This appendix is an effort to introduce this collection of very useful functions to a new C programmer. This is not an attempt to demonstrate all the functions or all the uses of a particular function; rather, it emphasizes on how to use it in our own programs.

qsort()

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