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Learn C the Hard Way: Practical Exercises on the Computational Subjects You Keep Avoiding (Like C)
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Learn C the Hard Way: Practical Exercises on the Computational Subjects You Keep Avoiding (Like C)

by Zed A. Shaw
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
10h 15m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Exercise 14. Writing and Using Functions

Up until now, we’ve just used functions that are part of the stdio.h header file. In this exercise, you’ll write some functions and use some other functions.

ex14.c

 1   #include <stdio.h>  2   #include <ctype.h>  3  4   // forward declarations  5   int can_print_it(char ch);  6   void print_letters(char arg[]);  7  8   void print_arguments(int argc, char *argv[])  9   { 10       int i = 0; 11 12       for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) { 13           print_letters(argv[i]); 14       } 15   } 16 17   void print_letters(char arg[]) 18   { 19       int i = 0; 20 21       for (i = 0; arg[i] != '\0'; i++) { 22           char ch = arg[i]; 23 24           if (can_print_it(ch)) { 25               printf ...

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