Re: OT programming challenge: fastest/best/shortest C program to jumble a sentence, then restore it

On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 15:41:13 -0500, DFS wrote:
 

Sorry.  That's ALL from a crlf inserted by the newsreader.  It compiled
cleanly after I took it out.

 Yup...
 In production code I'd likely do
 char* sentence;
 sentence = strdup("Once you try it, you'll see it doesn't need spice.");
if (sentence == NULL) {
    printf("strdup() failed: %s", strerror(errno));
    return -1;
}

 Admittedly is the implied malloc() failed the odds of it printing
anything aren't great but might as well try. I probably would use
strtok_r() in production if there was a remote possibility that there
would be another nested strtok(). That's ruined more than one
programmer's day.