Selected solutions to exercise of "The C Programming Language" 2e (Part 5)

Exercise 1-20

Write a program detab that replaces tabs in the input with the proper number of blanks to space to the next tab stop. Assume a fixed set of tab stops, say every n columns. Should n be a variable or a symbolic parameter?

#include <stdio.h>

 

#define TAB_SIZE 8

 

long col_no; /* column number */

 

void put_char(int ch) {

    putchar(ch);

   

    if (ch == '/n') {

        col_no = 0;

    }

    else

        col_no ++;

}

 

 

 

int main() {   

    int c;

    while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) {

        if (c == '/t') {

            int spaces = TAB_SIZE - (col_no % TAB_SIZE);

            for (; spaces > 0; --spaces)

                put_char(' ');

        } else {

            put_char(c);

        }

    }   

    return 0;       

}

 

Exercise 1-21

Write a program entab that replaces strings of blanks with the minimum number of tabs and blanks to achieve the same spacing. Use the same stops as for detab . When either a tab or a single blank would suffice to reach a tab stop, which should be given preference?

#include <stdio.h>

#define TAB_SIZE 8

 

long col_no;

 

void put_char(int ch) {

    putchar(ch);   

    if (ch == '/n') {

        col_no = 0;

    }

    else

        col_no++;

}

 

int main() {

    int c;

    int spaces = 0;

 

    while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) {

        if (c == ' ') {

            col_no++;

            spaces = col_no % TAB_SIZE;

           

            if (spaces == 0) {

                put_char('/t');

                col_no--;

            }

        }

        else {

            for (; spaces > 0; --spaces)

                put_char(' ');

 

            put_char(c);

        }

    }  

 

    return 0;

}