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

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

Pretty easy fixes:
 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

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