I was looking over the first kata i did on codewars, and I thought it would be fun to try and solve it in C. The object was to return a string based on a boolean input. it took a lot of trial and error, googling, chat gippity, but I eventually got it to work. I am still focused on learning python, but I’ve had it in my mind that I should branch out once I’ve reached a competence plateau in python. I’m nowhere near that plateau yet, but this seemed simple enough to warrant the necessary investment in time to accomplish it.

// C:
#include <stdbool.h>
// FIRST EVER C PROGRAM
const char *bool_to_word (bool value){
// you can return a static/global string or a string literal
  if (value == 1){
  return "Yes";
    }
  else{
    return "No";
  }
}

I realize this is pretty trivial, but still, it’s a milestone for me and I wanted to do my part to get the ball rolling on this community.

  • rattenjunge@feddit.de
    2·
    2 years ago

    Well done. Keep on practising and improving and your life will change. C is love, C is life.

    Your code raised a question that never came to my mind before. What actually happens here? To my understanding there are two strings “Yes” and “No” within the scope of this function. But are they accessible from outside of the function?

    After looking it up, it appears to be totally valid: Lifetime of a string literal in C That’s probably what’s implied in the comment line directly above the if.