Discussion Outline
Session 10

Current material

• Strings
  • What is a string ? - A character array where the end of the string is marked with the null terminator. Show internal representation.
  • Assignment operator can only be used during initialization.
  • Functions in the string library:
    • String length: strlen()
    • String copy: strcpy()
    • String compare: strcmp()
    • String concatenation: strcat()
• I/O functions
  • stdin, stdout, stderr
  • Use fprintf(stderr, ".....\n"); for all error messages
  • getc, fgetc, scanf, fscanf, gets, fgets
• Pointers to structures
  • The -> operator
  • Structs should be passed to functions by reference, not value.
  • Structs that have pointers to structs as members.
  • Self-referencing structs

Administrative

• Discussion of Project 4