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| From | Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Small challenge: sort names |
| Date | 2026-04-09 00:10 +0300 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <20260409001030.000006c9@yahoo.com> (permalink) |
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On Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:04:56 GMT
scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:
> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> >On 08/04/2026 17:25, DFS wrote:
> >> On 4/8/2026 4:22 AM, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>
> >//count characters in a string
> >int countchr(char *str, char chr)
> >{int
> >c=0,cnt=0;while(str[c]!='\0'){if(str[c]==chr){cnt++;}c++;}return
> >cnt;}
> >
> >I couldn't quite figure out what it did; counting characters in a
> >string (like the comment says)? But strlen will do that. Then I
> >noticed that the extra 'chr' parameter, so maybe it stops at 'chr'.
> >
> >But when I tried running it as countchr("ABCDEFGH", 'E'), it
> >returned 1, not 4 or 5.
> >
> >So I refactored it like this:
> >
> > int countchr(char *str, char chr) {
> > int c=0, cnt=0;
> > while (str[c]!='\0') {
> > if (str[c] == chr) cnt++;
> > c++;
> > }
> > return cnt;
> > }
>
> Idiomatically, I might have written
>
> size_t
> countchar(const char *str, char match)
> {
> size_t count = 0u;
> for(; *str != '\0'; str++) count += (*str == match);
> return count;
> }
>
>
>
I'd change it to
size_t
countchar(const char *str, char match)
{
size_t count = 0;
for(; *str != 0; str++) count += (*str == match);
return count;
}
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Re: Small challenge: sort names scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-04-21 17:38 +0000
Re: Small challenge: sort names Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-04-21 20:50 +0300
Re: Small challenge: sort names scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-04-21 18:22 +0000
Re: Small challenge: sort names Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-04-22 03:48 +0200
Re: Small challenge: sort names David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-04-22 09:18 +0200
Re: Small challenge: sort names Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-04-22 13:22 +0300
Re: Small challenge: sort names David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-04-22 12:38 +0200
Re: Small challenge: sort names Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-04-22 13:58 +0300
Re: Small challenge: sort names David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-04-22 13:13 +0200
Re: Small challenge: sort names Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-04-22 14:53 +0200
Re: Small challenge: sort names DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2026-04-21 16:31 -0400
Re: Small challenge: sort names Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-04-21 23:04 +0100
Re: Small challenge: sort names Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-04-20 14:16 -0700
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[OT] Shell approach to Re: Small challenge: sort names Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-04-19 09:35 +0200
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