Whats the need of recursive function in C? Where do we need it except factorial count? Any real example?

Answer 1

When you need to display contents of a folder, including it's subfolders.
A lot tree operations are recursive as branch of a tree is also a tree.

Answer 2

I don't think it's used that often, it's just that some tasks are much simpler to do with recursion than with loops.

Answer 3

How often is it used in C ? It's really confusing

Answer 4

I see , thanks a lot