C Programming language

C Standard Library Function

Day 1: Introduction and brief history of C Programming language

Day 1: Advantages and Disadvantages of C, C Keywords, Data type modifiers in C

Day 1: Data types in C Programming language

Day 1: Secondary data types, Primitive and Non-primitive data types

Day 1: C Variables, C Constant, Format Specifiers in C

Day 2: Write first C program

Day 2: Flow of C program with example, main(), printf(), scanf()

Day 2: Operaters in C Programming language, Arithmetic operators

Day 2: Relational operators and Logical Operators in C Programming language

Day 2: Assignment, Increments and Decrement Operators in C Programming language

Day 3: Conditional statement: if else statement in C Programming language

Day 3: Conditional statement: switch statement in C Programming language

Day 3: Jump statements: return statement in C Programming language

Day 3: Jump statements: go to statement in C Programming language

Day 3: Jump statements: break statement in C Programming language

Day 3: Jump statements: continue statement in C Programming language

Day 4: Loops OR Iteration statement in C Programming language: for Loop

Day 4: Loops OR Iteration statement in C Programming language: while Loop

Day 4: Loops OR Iteration statement in C Programming language: do while Loop

Day 5: Array in C Programming language

Day 5: Access elements of Array in C Programming language

Day 5: One dimensional Array representation in memory using C Programming language

Day 5: Two dimensional Array representation in memory using C Programming language

Day 5: Multidimensional Array in C Programming language

Day 6: Function in C Programming language

Day 6: Definition, Declaration and Calling a Function in C Programming language

Day 6: Passing array to a function in C Programming language

Day 6: Calling Function in C Programming language : Call by value

Day 6: Calling Function in C Programming language : Call by reference

Day 6: Recursive Function in C Programming language

Day 6: Adding function to the library in C Programming language

Day 7: Pointer in C Programming language, How to use Pointer, Pointer declaration

Day 7: NULL Pointers in C Programming language

Day 7: Array of Pointers in C Programming language

Day 7: Pointer arithmetic in C Programming language

Day 7: Pointer to Pointer in C Programming language

Day 7: Pointer to Function in C Programming language: Passing pointers to functions

Day 7: Pointer to Function in C Programming language: Return pointer from functions

Day 8: Strings in C Programming language, Declaring String in C Programming language

Day 8: String functions in C Programming language

Introduction of Structure

Accessing the members of Structure

Structure With typedef Keyword and Use of sizeof function

Example of Structure

Dynamic memory allocation in C: Introduction

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Day 8 Passing Strings to Functions in C Programming language
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String can be passed to function in similar manner as arrays as, string is also an array. Learn more about passing array to a function.

#include <stdio.h>
void show(char string[]);
int main(){
    char c[10]="Hello r4r";
    show(c);     // Passing string c to function.    
    return 0;
}
void show(char string[]){
    printf("String Output: %s",string);
}
Output

String Output: Hello r4r

Here, string c is passed from main() function to user-defined function show(). In function declaration, string[] is the formal argument.

# Passing Strings to a function using Pointer

#include <stdio.h>
 
/* function declaration */
void show(char *string[]);
 
int main(){
    char c[10]="Hello r4r";
    show(&c);     // Passing string c to function.    
    return 0;
}
/* function definition to show the values */
void show(char *string[]){
    printf("String Output: %s",string);
}
Output

String Output: Hello r4r