What is newline character — ‘\n’

From the sed man page: Normally, sed cyclically copies a line of input, not including its terminating newline character, into a pattern space, (unless there is something left after a “D” function), applies all of the commands with addresses that select that pattern space, copies the pattern space to the standard output, appending a newline, and deletes … Read more

typedef struct vs struct definitions [duplicate]

The common idiom is using both: They are different definitions. To make the discussion clearer I will split the sentence: In the first line you are defining the identifier S within the struct name space (not in the C++ sense). You can use it and define variables or function arguments of the newly defined type by defining … Read more

How to convert an int to string in C?

EDIT: As pointed out in the comment, itoa() is not a standard, so better use sprintf() approach suggested in the rivaling answer! You can use itoa() function to convert your integer value to a string. Here is an example: If you want to output your structure into a file there is no need to convert any value beforehand. You can just use … Read more

What does “collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status” mean?

The ld returned 1 exit status error is the consequence of previous errors. In your example there is an earlier error – undefined reference to ‘clrscr’ – and this is the real one. The exit status error just signals that the linking step in the build process encountered some errors. Normally exit status 0 means success, and exit status > 0 means errors. … Read more

What exactly is the difference between “pass by reference” in C and in C++?

There are questions that already deal with the difference between passing by reference and passing by value. In essence, passing an argument by value to a function means that the function will have its own copy of the argument – its value is copied. Modifying that copy will not modify the original object. However, when passing by reference, … Read more

Why should we typedef a struct so often in C?

As Greg Hewgill said, the typedef means you no longer have to write struct all over the place. That not only saves keystrokes, it also can make the code cleaner since it provides a smidgen more abstraction. Stuff like becomes cleaner when you don’t need to see the “struct” keyword all over the place, it looks more … Read more

Why should we typedef a struct so often in C?

As Greg Hewgill said, the typedef means you no longer have to write struct all over the place. That not only saves keystrokes, it also can make the code cleaner since it provides a smidgen more abstraction. Stuff like becomes cleaner when you don’t need to see the “struct” keyword all over the place, it looks more … Read more