C programming debugging exercises assignments solutions
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When you are working on a c programming project and implementing different functionality as per the requirements of the project you will come accross issues during during source code development phase or integration testing phase or sytem test or field trials phase. So if you have good debugging skills that will help you to resolve the errors in your code and put your project in a clean state.
In this article we will help you to develop those debugging skills by using which you can write better code during development phase or resolve issues during integration/system level testing or field trials. I will give you here small code snippets having issues in it as a debugging exercise and you will try those execises to resolve the issue. I will also provide a link to the solution of each of the debugging exercise to verify your solution.
Debugging exercises
Write a function to count the sum of all the digits present in an integer number
Write a function to count the sum of all the digits present in an integer number
#include <stdio.h>
int SumDigit(int );
int main()
{
int res;
res = SumDigit(1223);
printf("The sum of digits %d\n", res);
return 0;
}
int SumDigit(int num)
{
int sum = 0,rem;
while(num > 9)
{
rem = num%10;
num /= 10;
}
sum += num;
return sum;
}
Output of the above debugging exercise is given below.
$ ./a.out
The sum of digits 1
$
This debugging exercise has one issue. In this program we are counting the sum of all digits present in number 1223. So it should be 1+2+2+3 i.e. 8. But we are getting program output as 1. Try to solve this exercise.
The solution for this debugging exercise is provided below.
#include <stdio.h>
int SumDigit(int );
int main()
{
int res;
res = SumDigit(1223);
printf("The sum of digits %d\n", res);
return 0;
}
int SumDigit(int num)
{
int sum = 0,rem;
while(num > 9)
{
rem = num%10;
sum += rem;
num /= 10;
}
sum += num;
return sum;
}
Write a function to count number of characters in a given string
Write a function to count number of characters in a given string
#include <stdio.h>
void NumOfChars(char *s, int *);
int main() {
char str[] = "Test string";
int res;
NumOfChars(str,&res);
printf("Result is:%d\n", res);
}
void NumOfChars(char *s, int *r)
{
int i = 0;
while(s[i] != '\0')
{
*r = *r + 1;
i++;
}
}
Output of the above debugging exercise is given below.
$ gcc CharCount.c
$ ./a.out
Result is:66339
$
This debugging exercise has one issue. In this program we are counting the number of characters present in string "Test string". So excluding null character it should return as 11. But it is returning 66339. Try to solve this exercise.
The solution for this debugging exercise is provided below.
#include <stdio.h>
void NumOfChars(char *s, int *);
int main() {
char str[] = "Test string";
int res = 0;
NumOfChars(str,&res);
printf("Result is:%d\n", res);
}
void NumOfChars(char *s, int *r)
{
int i = 0;
while(s[i] != '\0')
{
*r = *r + 1;
i++;
}
}
Write a function to count number of words present in a string
Program to write a function to count number of words present in a string
#include <stdio.h>
void NumOfWords(char *s, int );
int main() {
char str[] = "Hello how are you";
int res = 1;
NumOfWords(str,res);
printf("Result is:%d\n", res);
}
void NumOfWords(char *s, int r)
{
int i = 0;
while(s[i] != '\0')
{
if(s[i] == ' ')
{
r = r + 1;
}
i++;
}
}
Output of the above debugging exercise is given below.
$ ./a.out
Result is:1
$
This debugging exercise has one issue. We are expected to count the number of words present in the string str which is passed to the function NumOfWords. So as string str has 4 words we should get the count as 4. But we are getting the count as 1. Try to solve this exercise.
The solution for this debugging exercise is provided
here.
Write a function to loop through the strings present in an array of pointers to string
Write a function to loop through the strings present in an array of pointers to string
#include <stdio.h>
char *StringSet[] = {
"string1 1 0 2 0",
"string2 1 2 0 5 9",
"string3 0 9 2",
""
};
int main(){
int i = 0;
while(StringSet[i] != NULL){
printf("String %s\n",StringSet[i]);
i++;
}
}
Output of the above debugging exercise is given below.
$ ./a.out
String string1 1 0 2 0
String string2 1 2 0 5 9
String string3 0 9 2
String
$
This debugging exercise has one issue. In this program we are expected to get only string1, string2, string3 as output. But we are getting inside the while loop 4 times as is observed in the program output. Try to solve this exercise.
The solution for this debugging exercise is provided
here.
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