i am really new to coding and was working on a supposedly simple problem of removing a character from a string in the c language. When I try to compile my code, I keep getting, error:conflicting types for 'remove'. I don't know why I am getting this error because the code seems okay. Help with this will be greatly appreciated. This is the code
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main()
{
char ch,str[30],word[30];
void remove(char[],char[],char);
printf("enter the string\n");
gets(str);
printf("enter the character to move\n");
ch=getchar();
remove(str,word,ch);
printf("converted to %s\n",word);
}
void remove(char str[], char word[],char c){
int j=0,k=0;
while(str[j++]!='\0'){
if(str[j]!=c)word[k++]=str[j];}
word[k]='\0';
}
The header <stdio.h>
already has a declaration of a function named remove
.
int remove(const char *filename);
So the compiler issues an error because the identifier remove
is declared two times with different types in the same file scope.
So rename your function as for example remove_copy
.
Nevertheless the function implementation is wrong.
Within the loop
while(str[j++]!='\0'){
if(str[j]!=c)word[k++]=str[j];}
you are comparing a next element str[j]!=c
after current due to the increment in the condition
str[j++]
The function can be declared and implemented the following way
char * remove_copy( char s1[], const char s2[], char c )
{
char *p = s1;
for ( ; *s2; ++s2 )
{
if ( *s2 != c )
{
*p++ = *s2;
}
}
*p = '\0';
return s1;
}
Pay attention to that the function gets
is unsafe and is not supported by the C Standard any more. Instead use the standard function fgets
.
Here is a demonstrative program.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
char * remove_copy( char s1[], const char s2[], char c )
{
char *p = s1;
for ( ; *s2; ++s2 )
{
if ( *s2 != c )
{
*p++ = *s2;
}
}
*p = '\0';
return s1;
}
int main(void)
{
enum { N = 30 };
char str[N], word[N];
char c;
printf( "Enter a string: " );
fgets( str, N, stdin );
str[ strcspn( str, "\n" ) ] = '\0';
printf( "Enter a character to remove from the string: " );
c = getchar();
printf( "The result string is \"%s\"\n", remove_copy( word, str, c ) );
return 0;
}
Its output might look like
Enter a string: I am learning C++
Enter a character to remove from the string: +
The result string is "I am learning C"
remove
is reserved #include <stdio.h>
char *strchrrem(const char *str, char *dest, char c)
{
char *wrk = dest;
do
{
if(*str != c) *wrk++ = *str;
}while(*str++);
return dest;
}
int main(void)
{
char dest[64];
printf("%s\n", strchrrem("Hello world.", dest, 'l'));
}
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