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#Why is my word printing out one too many times?
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keen prairie
#include <stdio.h>
#define MAX 1024
int main(void) {
char word[MAX];
printf("Input word: ");
fgets(word, MAX, stdin);
int length_of_word = 0;
for (int i = 0; word[i] != '\0'; i++) {
printf("%c", word[i]);
length_of_word++;
printf("%d", length_of_word);
}
printf("Word square is\n");
for (int i = 0; i < length_of_word; i++) {
printf("%s", word);
}
return 0;
}```upon doing some in-code testing
it prints out
b1r2u3h4
5Word square is
bruh
bruh
bruh
bruh
bruh```so its including the newline character in the loop
?????
do i not understand how for loops work or something lmao
what
i tried this witha while loop
same thing
i am relaly confused rn
tired gull
;compile | bruh
#include <stdio.h>
#define MAX 1024
int main(void) {
char word[MAX];
printf("Input word: ");
fgets(word, MAX, stdin);
int length_of_word = 0;
for (int i = 0; word[i] != '\0'; i++) {
printf("%c", word[i]);
length_of_word++;
printf("%d", length_of_word);
}
printf("Word square is\n");
for (int i = 0; i < length_of_word; i++) {
printf("%s", word);
}
return 0;
}
frail fjordBOT
tired gull
Prints only 4 times.
Not sure why yours prints 5 times.
wheat ledge
so its including the newline character in the loop
yes, why would it skip the new line?
wheat ledge
Prints only 4 times.
Not sure why yours prints 5 times.
maybe the bot doesn't send a new line?
fgets places a new line into word, so the for loop will count jt
tired gull
maybe the bot doesn't send a new line?
Yeah, you're right.
Running this directly on CE does print it 5 times.
https://godbolt.org/z/c4aPn7jzr
keen prairie
yes, why would it skip the new line?
i didn’t know it would put a new line in it 💀
stone spire
i didn’t know it would put a new line in it 💀
this is why you always do man fgets if you have a Linux terminal at hand, or just google for man fgets and click on the link to a man7.org page
every standard library function has a man page with complete description of behaviour
sorry wrong link
(There are POSIX man pages and also Linux man pages, it's confusing at times)
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