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| From | John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: I think this is an impossible assignment...could you help? |
| Date | 2011-08-31 02:03 +0000 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
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In <j3k3lv$a1h$2@dont-email.me> Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> writes:
> > 1. Read and discard whitespace.
> > 2a. If the next char is a minus sign, remember it so you can make the
> > final return value negative.
> > 2b. Else if the next char is a plus sign, ignore it because we assume
> > numbers are positive anyway.
> > 3. Read one or more digits, computing the value of sum as we go.
> > 4. Read and discard whitespace.
> > 5. Read and discard a carriage return. (I think you missed this in
> > your original effort.)
> > 6. Return sum.
> Steps 4 and 5 seem ill-advised. YMMV.
The problem spec does explicitly say that numbers will be bounded by
whitespace, although the examples given seem to indicate that it is
optional.
Number 5 should be "carriage return or EOF".
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