Lab 2
Attempt the following questions and test each of the answers using an appropriate main() function.
Q1 Write a C function to swap two characters. The function prototype is given below.
void cswap(char *a, char *b);
Q2 Study the following code segment and determine the value of i at the end of the code segment.
char d[]="Hello World";
int i;
for(i=0; d[i]; i++); //no body or statement for the loop
Q3 Write a C function to return the length of a string without considering the ending null character.
The function prototype is given below.
int clength(char d[]); //returns length without counting the null
Q4 Write a C function to reverse an input string. The function prototype is given below.
void sreverse(char d[]); // reverses a null terminated string
Hint: Run a loop to scan the array from index 0 to half the length, and swap the characters,
excluding the null character as shown in the below example. Ensure your code works for both
even and odd length strings.
0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
H e l l 0 W o r l d \0
Q5 How Would you implement the above function sreverse() using recursion? Study the code below.
void reverse(char d[], int size){ // size excludes the null
if(size<=1) return; // nothing to do - Base case
cswap(&d[0], &d[size-1]); //swap the first and the last
reverse(&d[1], size-2); //call reverse to swap the rest
}
Why did we call the above function reverse() and not sreverse()? Would the above function
reverse() swap the middle char with itself?
One can now implement sreverse() as,
void sreverse(char d[]) { reverse(d, slength(d)); }
