C :: Exceed Array Length
Feb 9, 2014
I was reading in a book I had about C that an array has at the very end a "null character" signifying the end of the string inside it, "/o". So that made me think, "I guess one needs to declare arrays as having 1 extra space than one expects the array to need. I wonder what will happen if I exceed the array length?" So I made a program to test it out. Here is the program/results:
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void){
char name[3];
printf("
What's your name?
");
scanf("%s", name);
}
[code]....
As you can see my name was able to fit in the array somehow even though I only allocated 3 bytes to the array. I tried again using my legal first name, Benjamin, and it was still able to fit. How is the array able to hold my name when I declared it as only having 3 bytes?
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Apr 16, 2013
I'm working with arrays that might have NULL bytes in them and I'm wondering how to determine the length of the array or store it somewhere with the array (strlen() won't work because of the NULL, right?).
I've found advice like store the length of the array in the first byte of the array, but since sizeof(size_t) is 8 should I leave the first 8 bytes for the length?
Would it be better do define my own structure which would store the array and its length? What's the usual way these things are handled in practice?
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May 24, 2013
i having a code to pass in array as argument, but the length returned is 1. This is not match with the array size.
int Getsize(int Array[])
{
int len = sizeof(Array)/sizeof(int);
cout << len << "
";
}
int main()
{
int X[] = {45, 12, 54, 83, 41, 36};
getsize(X);
}
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Sep 7, 2013
I can't find any method of retrieving the length of an array except for doing this:
string first[] = {"a","be","see"};
int length = sizeof(first)/sizeof(first[0])
This is a very unconventional way of getting the length of an array.
first->length() would return 1 because it returns the number of letters in the first element of the array (which actually makes no logical sense).
first.size() would return 1 aswell as it's practically the same thing.
Since getting the length of an array is such a fundamental feat, how come I can't find a decent method of doing it?
Is there no buildt in method for this? If there is not, why has it not been implemented in the std?
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Jun 16, 2014
I have a program with the following code, and I need to be able to either change the value of any or all of the strlen or to replace one or all with a temp array value. All values of the expression are arrays.
if (::strlen(tc_buf) + ::strlen(maxtime_buf) + ::strlen(" ") < sizeof(localBuf))
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Jan 23, 2015
I'm trying to make an application and I need the length of the array of a struct. Like this:
struct myStruct {
int integer;
};
myStruct struct[] =
{
1,
2,
};
I want to get how many ints are in the array...
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Sep 25, 2014
I am working on a c-programm. In this program I have to convert the amount of money I read on two variables into the corret format. I got Euros and cents on 2 ints. But now I want to add both of those variables in a String (char array). Also i want to find out the length of the new char array.
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Sep 9, 2013
How can I obtain the length of an array that has been sent throughout a function. In the following code, I obtain "2" as output, while I was expecting "5".
void call(int a[]) {
cout<<sizeof(a)/sizeof(int);
}
int main() {
int* a=new int[5];
call(a);
}
How can I properly call this function so I can obtain the correct array size?
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Jan 6, 2014
How can i change or add a cell to an array without knowing its length ? (I mean that I shouldn't know the length I need to make the length dynamic so i can add a cell)we just learned Dynamic assignment(I hope this is the correct name) and Pointers.
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Nov 13, 2013
This code snippet compiles and runs fine
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int i, a[i];
i=2;
for(int n=0; n<=i; n++)
a[n]=0;
[Code] .....
It prints out 3 "0", but when slightly changed
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int i, a[i];
i=200;
for(int n=0; n<=i; n++)
[Code] ....
It compiles fine but core dumps when run, how come? i'm using gcc version 4.4.7, and compiling like this
gcc -std=c99 test.c -o test
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Mar 6, 2015
The WinAPI has a struct like this for raw input:
Code:
typedef struct tagRAWINPUT { RAWINPUTHEADER header;
union {
RAWMOUSE mouse;
RAWKEYBOARD keyboard;
RAWHID hid;
} data;
[code]...
The definition of the struct doesn't show it but the documentation says that bRawData is variable length. sizeof(RAWINPUT) will not be the correct size when the data field is of RAWHID type so how do you allocate a variable with automatic storage type that has the right size for the entire struct? You can get a header that has the size for the entire struct but how do you actually allocate storage space for the data without using malloc? I've seen some example code that used a char array but that violates aliasing rules and there are also alignment issues with that approach.
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Oct 10, 2013
I believe that everything is fine except that I can think of the condition can be inserted inside the parentheses ..
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main() {
int i=0, k=0;
char *string_n, **matrix, temp;
[code].....
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Apr 2, 2014
How to write a function that receives an integer array along with its length. the function calculates and returns the sum of the squares of all the odd numbers in the array?
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Feb 16, 2015
i have to read a file with between 5 and 10 pairs of numbers, each on a different line. i can read the file, and wrote something to save the length of the file as a variable, but when i use it i start returning crazy data. the problem is in the do while loop and i want to change the i< in the for loop to "lines" so the code stops when the last digit is read. if i use i<10 the file has extra digits is the file is only 8 or 5 pairs of numbers.
FILE *Fpointout;
FILE *Fpointin = fopen ("test.txt","r"); //read this one
Fpointout = fopen ("out.txt","w"); //write this one
if (Fpointin == NULL) //if no file in source {
printf ("File does not exist."); //tell user it is not there
[Code] .....
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Nov 28, 2013
I want to ask for a number as an input during runtime and then create an 2-dimensional array of size as specified by user. i.e. if the user inputs 3, the array should be of size 3X3, and likewise...
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Nov 12, 2014
Exception Details: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: length
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
[Code]....
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Nov 20, 2013
I'm trying some codes about string arrays and taking array length. But i have some problems. I can't get length of string and can't send to a function.
------------------------
#include<iostream>
#include<cstring>
#include<string>
using namespace std;
void GetLength(string);
std::string Words[]={"table","gun","programming"};
int main()
{std::string InputWord;
[Code]...
And how can send Matrix to other function?
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Oct 3, 2013
The programming problem is supposed to take a decimal number from a user and turn it into a binary number. Here is my code:
for (int i=0; i< count; i++) {
binary[i] = decimal % 2;
decimal = decimal/2;
} cout << binary[2] << endl;
decimal is the number entered by the user.
binary [] is the char array and count is... you know how many times the for loop will turn. So my question is, how do i know the length of the number ? Any function that shows the integer length ? because its impossible to know what count is equal to. like 100 is 3.
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Jan 29, 2015
I need to be able to find every possible permutation using all possible values of a char. But I have to make it be able to form permutations from a length of 1 to variable N. For example, if N=3, I need it to be able to come up with
0x00
0x01
.......
0x00 0x00
0x01 0x01
.......
0xff 0xff 0xfe
0xff 0xff 0xff
How could I do this. (I would like to avoid recursion, since N might be as large as 50 or 60 and using recursion would most likely cause a stack overflow)
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Apr 20, 2013
Code:
char line[BUFSIZ];
while ( fgets(line, sizeof line, file) != NULL ){
llen = strlen(line);
printf("%d - %s
",llen,line);
}
I get a full line printed but my llen is the size of my buffer. how do i get the total size om my line from the beginning to " "
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Nov 23, 2013
Any good function that get the length of an integer in C++
I do know of str.length(), however i want something similar for integers
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Oct 5, 2014
im new to c++ ,so my question is how do i change a length of a text. for example hi my name is blah blah blah. nice to meet you. (n i want every lines to have 8 chars how do i do that)
(hi__my__
name_is_
balh____
blah____
blah____
._nice__
to_meet_
you.) (_ equal space)
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Jul 6, 2014
int t;
string a;
cin>>t;
getline(cin,a);
int len=a.length();
cout<<a<<" "<<len;
[code].....
why is the length 0?what can I do to get the correct length of the input string?
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May 28, 2013
The input consists of one or more packets followed by a line containing only # that signals the end of the input. Each packet is on a line by itself, does not begin or end with a space, and contains from 1 to 255 characters.
it said 1 to 255 characters
i have to use getline(cin,str);
i tried str[255] but some error happen
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Dec 15, 2014
I am stuck here.
printf(" Enter a line of Morse Code for decrypting");
scanf("%s",phr);
len=strlen(phr);
for(a=0;a<36;a++) {
if(strcmp(phr, morse[a])==0)
printf("%c", alpha[a]);
};printf(" ");
The output :
[output] Enter line to encrypt:
..... -.... --...
converting...
5 [/output]
It should read all code, including null. between coded letter one space, between coded word three spaces.
The output should be:
[output]
56 7 [/output]
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Feb 15, 2014
That is my routine to catch a text from editBox (ID_EDIT2) and save in a file. The address of file is in (ID_EDIT1). The code is working.
void simplewrite(HWND hwnd){
HANDLE hFile;
DWORD dwWritten;
[Code]....
My problem is: I put the size of char array txtbuffer=[200]. If I have a editbox bigger than that, I'll get a error. In (editlength) I have the correct length of edit box. But I cant initialize my char txtbuffer[editglenth]=NULL cause editlength is a integer not constant.
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