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Give a brief note on null pointer assignment. Write a program to illustrate this concept. 6m Jun2008

Give a brief note on null pointer assignment. Write a program in ‘C’ to illustrate this concept. 6m Jun2008 Null Pointer Assignment It does make sense to assign an integer value to a pointer variable. An exception is an assignment of 0, which is sometimes used to indicate some special condition. A macro is used… Read More »

A C program to swap the values of two variables, using pointers – IGNOU MCA Assignment 2014 – 15

 MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS Course Code : MCS-011 Course Title : Problem Solving and Programming Assignment Number : MCA(1)/011/Assign/2014-15 Maximum Marks : 100 Weightage : 25%   Write an interactive C program to swap the values of two given variables, using pointers.   # include <stdio.h> void main() { int M,N; void swapRef ( int… Read More »

Explain the concept of a function returning a pointer with an example 6m Jun2007

Explain the concept of a function returning a pointer in C with an example 6m Jun2007 Function returning a pointer in C A function can also return a pointer to the calling program, the way it returns an int, a float or any other data type. To return a pointer, a function must explicitly mention… Read More »

Using pointers, write a program in ‘C’ to count the occurrence of each character in a given string. 10m Dec2006

Using pointers, write a program in ‘C’ to count the occurrence of each character in a given string. 10m Dec2006   #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> void main() { char string[100],*ptr; int c=0,count[26]={0}; clrscr(); printf(“Enter a string\n”); gets(string); ptr=string[0]; while (*ptr) { /* Consider characters from ‘a’ to ‘z’ only */ if ( ptr >= ‘a’… Read More »

Write a program in ‘C’ to find the length of a given string including blank spaces, tabs and other special symbols use “Pointers” concept. 10m Dec2005

Write a program in ‘C’ to find the length of a given string including blank spaces, tabs and other special symbols (new line character should be taken as a string terminating character) Note : You should use “Pointers” concept. 10m Dec2005   Use while(str[i] != “\n”)  instead of while(*str)   Solved program can be found… Read More »

C025 A C program to input a string and output the reversed string using pointer notation

Let’s identify variables needed for this program. In this program, we need several variables to store string and count the number of characters in the given string. First variables will be the one which will save the string entered by the user and reverse of it. So it will be S[50] and R[50]. In C… Read More »

A C program to check whether the string is a palindrome or not, using pointers – IGNOU MCA Assignment 2013

MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS Course Code : MCS-011 Course Title : Problem Solving and Programming Assignment Number : MCA(1)/011/Assign/13 Assignment 2013     An interactive C program to check whether the given string is a palindrome or not, using pointers.   #include<stdio.h> void main() {     int MID,FLAG,I,LEN=0;     char *PTR1,*PTR2,S[50];     clrscr();     printf(“TO CHECK… Read More »