Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?

On 19/03/2025 05:02, DFS wrote:

On 3/19/2025 12:51 AM, Richard Heathfield wrote:

On 19/03/2025 04:42, DFS wrote:

Pretty easy fixes:
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1 use scanf()
2 update int to long
3 handle special case of n = 1
4 instead of collecting the results in a char variable, I print
   them as they're calculated

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You've also fixed another glitch which may or may not have been significant:
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$ file post2.txt
post2.txt: news, ASCII text
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So wherever that UTF-8 came from, it's gone now.

 Cool.  Thanks for looking at it.
 Hey, how are your C book (from 2000) sales?  Thought about a new edition?

I'm not sure a new edition is necessary, but if it is to be written it would be better served by someone like Keith or Tim, both of whom have (as I have not) kept up with the million-and-one changes that appear to have assailed the simple language I once enjoyed.
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