反转字符串

用C语言实现一个revert函数，它的功能是将输入的字符串在原串上倒序后返回.

#include <string.h>

void reverse(char s[])
{
      int length = strlen(s) ;
      int c, i, j;

      for (i = 0, j = length - 1; i < j; i++, j--)
     {
         c = s[i];
         s[i] = s[j];
         s[j] = c;
      }
}

问题1：Shouldn't variable "c" be a char instead of an int?
回答1：In C, whenever a character constant or variable is used in an expression in C, it is automatically converted & treated as an integer. If you have a linux termminal, you can see the ascii codes by typing man ascii.

注意：Its important to note in this example that the string s must be declared in an array form. In other words, char s[] = "this is ok" rather than char *s="cannot do this" because the latter results in a string constant which cannot be modified.

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Notice:

What is the difference between char s[] and char *s in C?

In C, I can do like this:

char s[]="hello";

or

char *s ="hello";

So I wonder what is the difference? I want to know what actually happens in memory allocation during compile time and run time.

Answer：

The difference here is that

char *s = "Hello world";

will place Hello world in the read-only parts of the memory and making s a pointer to that, making any writing operation on this memory illegal. While doing:

char s[] = "Hello world";

puts the literal string in read-only memory and copies the string to newly allocated memory on the stack. Thus making

s[0] = 'J';

legal.