Comments on: C interview puzzles – semicolon programs, delete or replace a line in a text file http://www.interviewmantra.net/2008/12/c-interview-questions-with-solutions-4.html Your mantra to job success Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sridhar http://www.interviewmantra.net/2008/12/c-interview-questions-with-solutions-4.html/comment-page-1#comment-33 Sridhar Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:35:44 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/2008/12/c-interview-puzzles-semicolon-programs-delete-or-replace-a-line-in-a-text-file/#comment-33 @ashik, & is not required in scanf while reading a string using %s. scanf expects a pointer in its arguments corresponding to the format specified (%d, %c, %s etc). In this case, filename[40] is a character array. So filename refers to the base address that is amp;filename[0]. So that line is valid. Anyways thanks for stopping by. Keeping coming back to check latest articles in this blog. And keep commenting. --Sridhar @ashik,

& is not required in scanf while reading a string using %s. scanf expects a pointer in its arguments corresponding to the format specified (%d, %c, %s etc).

In this case, filename[40] is a character array. So filename refers to the base address that is amp;filename[0]. So that line is valid.

Anyways thanks for stopping by. Keeping coming back to check latest articles in this blog. And keep commenting.

–Sridhar

]]> By: ashik http://www.interviewmantra.net/2008/12/c-interview-questions-with-solutions-4.html/comment-page-1#comment-34 ashik Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:54:48 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/2008/12/c-interview-puzzles-semicolon-programs-delete-or-replace-a-line-in-a-text-file/#comment-34 hey dude,in prog 38 in line no 12 u must add '&' before 'filename' in scanf statement hey dude,in prog 38 in line no 12 u must add ‘&’ before ‘filename’ in scanf statement

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