Selected solutions to exercise of "The C Programming Language" 2e (Part 3)

Exercise 1-16

Revise the main routine of the longest-line program so it will correctly print the length of arbitrarily long input lines, and as much as possible of the text.

 

/* I do not think this is a better answer. I think i will

* give another answer later. And actually, the specification

* of this exercise is not very clear. */

 

#include <stdio.h>

 

#define MAXLINE 20

 

int getline(char s[], int lim);

void copy(char to[], char from[]);

 

int main(void)

{

    char line[MAXLINE];

    char longest[MAXLINE];

    char temp[MAXLINE];

    int len, max, prevmax, getmore;

   

    max = prevmax = getmore = 0;

    while((len = getline(line, MAXLINE)) > 0)

    {

        if(line[len - 1] != '/n') {

            if(getmore == 0)

                copy(temp, line);

            prevmax += len;

            if(max < prevmax)

                max = prevmax;

            getmore = 1;

        }

        else  {

            if(getmore == 1) {

                if(max < prevmax + len) {

                    max = prevmax + len;

                    copy(longest, temp);

                    longest[MAXLINE - 2] = '/n';

                }

                getmore = 0;

            }

           

            else if(max < len) {

                max = len;

                copy(longest, line);

            }

            prevmax = 0;

        }

    }

 

    if(max > 0) {

        printf("%s", longest);

        printf("len = %d/n", max);

    }

   

    return 0;

}

 

int getline(char s[], int lim)

{

    int c, i;

   

    for(i = 0;

    i < lim - 1 && ((c = getchar()) != EOF && c != '/n');

    ++i)

        s[i] = c;

   

    if(c == '/n')

    {

        s[i] = c;

        ++i;

    }

    else if(c == EOF && i > 0)

    {

        /* gotta do something about no newline preceding EOF */

        s[i] = '/n';

        ++i;

    }

    s[i] = '/0';

    return i;

}

 

void copy(char to[], char from[])

{

    int i;

   

    i = 0;

    while((to[i] = from[i]) != '/0')

        ++i;

}

Exercise 1-17

Write a program to print all input lines that are longer than 80 characters.

/*

 * Write a program to print all input lines that are longer

 * than 80 characters.

 */

#include <stdio.h>

 

#define MAXLINE 80

 

int main(void)

{

    int c, i;

    char line[MAXLINE + 2] = {0}; /* 2 more is for '/n' and '/0' */

   

    i = 0;

 

    while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) {

        if (c != '/n') {

             line[i++] = c;

             if (i > MAXLINE) {

                 line[i] = '/0';

                 printf("%s", line);

                 while ((c = getchar()) != EOF && c != '/n') {

                     putchar(c);

                 }

                 if (c == '/n') {                    

                     putchar(c);

                     i = 0;

                     memset(line, 0, MAXLINE + 2);                     

                     continue;

                 }

                 if (c == EOF) {

                     break;

                 }

             }            

        }

        else {

            if (i <= MAXLINE) {

                i = 0;

                memset(line, 0, MAXLINE + 2);

                continue;

            }

        }       

    }

 

    return 0;

}