\376 on c

Question

what is on output \376?

Answer 1

Nicola Esu
char array a of size 1 is not good for taking word of length 4 or 6 as the space allocated is for 1 character only. You can change it to 6 to avoid any problem which may be caused due to pointer to memory which may be already allocated to some variable.

For taking out last 2 characters you can use strlen(string) function to get length of string & then take out character at index (l-2) & (l-1) directly.

Answer 2

what is wrong on this code ?

char a[1];
char i;
char c;

scanf("%s", a);

for (i = 97; i <= 122; i++){
a[i] = a[0];
}
for (i = 4; i <= 6; i++){

if(a[0] > i) {
printf("%c", a[i]);}
}else{

for(c = 97; c <= 122; c++){
a[c] = a[0];}
for (c = 2; c <= 4; c++){
printf("%c", a[c]);
}
}

}
}

Answer 3

this code must receive a word that can be either 4 or 6 characters long and must return the last 2 letters.

Answer 4

why if I use it on xcode it gives me the last 2 on the 6 letter word! and on the 4 word it give: \ 240 program ended with exit code: 0?