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In C/C++, every character including 'a' is stored using a specific size in memory. Most of the systems including Linux, the size of a character is 1 byte. This means that any character (like a) can occupy 1 byte(8 bits of memory). To determine how much memory is used by the character 'a', we can use the sizeof() operator. So, it returns the size in bytes of a variable or data type. Following are the list of different ways to check the Standard Size in C/C++. Using sizeof with character literal ... Read More

To find the Current Working Directory (CWD) in C or C++ is like asking your program: "Hey, where am I right now?". Simply we can say that it is like a folder of your program which is present and used to operate in. We can use functions like getcwd() from unistd.h in C/C++ or filesystem::current_path() from C++17. Below are the list of the ways to achieve this. Using getcwd() in C/C++ Using filesystem in C++17 Using getcwd() Function in C/C++ In C/C++, we use the getcwd() function. This function gets ... Read More

In this section, we will see how to tokenize strings in C. The C has library function for this. The C library function char *strtok(char *str, const char *delim) breaks string str into a series of tokens using the delimiter delim.Following is the declaration for strtok() function.char *strtok(char *str, const char *delim)It takes two parameters. The str - The contents of this string are modified and broken into smaller strings (tokens), and delim - This is the C string containing the delimiters. These may vary from one call to another. This function returns a pointer to the first token found ... Read More

There are multiple ways to wrap your existing C or C++ functionality in Python. In this section, we are going to see how we can wrap C/C++ functionality with SWIG. Below are other options to wrap c/c++ functionality in python.Manual wrappingUsing pyrex to wrap C code.CtypesSIPBoost PythonSWIG (Simple Wrapper Interface Generator) is capable of wrapping C code with numerous other languages including Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Tcl, C#, Common Lisp (CLISP, Allegro, CL, UFFI, CFFI), Java, Modula-3 and OCAML. Swig also supports multiple interpreted and compiled Scheme implementations (like Guile, MzScheme, Chicken) are supported.But we will discuss its implementation with ... Read More

In this program, we need to find sum of array elements using pointer arithmetic.Here we use * which denotes the value stored at the memory address and this address will remain stored in the variable. Thus “int *ptr” means, ptr is a variable which contains an address and content of the address is an integer quantity.*p means it is a pointer variable. Using this and sum() we will find out sum of the elements of array.Example Code#include  void s(int* a, int len) { int i, s_of_arr = 0; for (i = 0; i 

4 Dimensional ArrayThe 4 dimensional array is an array of 3 dimensional arrays. Each 3 dimensional array is an array of 2 dimensional arrays and each 2 dimensional array is an array of 1 dimensional arrays. In this article, we will learn all about 4 dimensional arrays, how to create them and how to access their elements with examples in both C and C++. Syntax to Create a 4D Array Following is the syntax for declaring a 4 dimensional array in C/C++: datatype array_name[dimension1][dimension2][dimension3][dimension4]; // Example int arr[3][2][3][4]; Example of a 4 Dimensional Array The ... Read More

As Array index starts with 0, so a[i] can be implemented as *(a + i).If Array index starts with 1 then a[i] will be implemented as *(a+i-1) which will be time consuming during compilation and the performance of the program will also be effected.So, it is better to start index of the array from 0.A simple program of array is given -Example Codeint main() {    int array[5] = {7, 7, 7, 6, 6};    for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)       cout

Pointers and array most of the time are treated as same in c. Some differences are:&operator:&pointer = returns the address of pointer.&array = returns the address of first element.sizeof operator:sizeof(array) = returns the total memory consumed by the all the elements of the array.sizeof(pointer) = returns the only memory consumed by the pointer variable itself.Array variable can’t be re-assigned a value whereas pointer variable can.Declaration:int a[]; //array Int *p; //pointerLet us consider that there is an integer pointer variableint *i;Now let us consider the outcome of the following assignments –a = &i; //illegal assignment. a variable can not be updated ... Read More

This is a simple C++ program of an uncommon representation of array elements.#include using namespace std; int main() { int array[5] = {7,7,7, 6, 6}; for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) cout

C treats array parameter as pointers because it is less time consuming and more efficient. Though if we can pass the address of each element of the array to a function as argument but it will be more time consuming. So it’s better to pass the base address of first element to the function like:void fun(int a[]) { … } void fun(int *a) { //more efficient. ….. }Here is a sample code in C:#include void display1(int a[]) //printing the array content {    int i;    printf("Current content of the array is: ");    for(i = 0; i < ... Read More