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AIX Version 4.3 General Programming Concepts: Writing and Debugging Programs
Programming Example for Manipulating Characters
/*
This program is designed to demonstrate the use of "Character
classification and conversion" subroutines. Since we are dealing
with characters, it is a natural place to demonstrate the use of
getchar subroutine and putchar subroutine from the stdio library.
The program objectives are:
-Read input from "stdin"
-Verify that all characters are ascii and printable
-Convert all uppercase characters to lowercase
-Discard multiple white spaces
-Report statistics regarding the types of characters
The following routines are demonstrated by this example program:
-getchar
-putchar
-isascii (ctype)
-iscntrl (ctype)
-isspace (ctype)
-isalnum (ctype)
-isdigit (ctype)
-isalpha (ctype)
-isupper (ctype)
-islower (ctype)
-ispunct (ctype)
-tolower (conv)
-toascii ( conv)
*/
#include <stdio.h> /* The mandatory include file */
#include <ctype.h> /* Included for character classification
subroutines */
/* The various statistics gathering counters */
int asciicnt, printcnt, punctcnt, uppercnt, lowercnt,
digcnt, alnumcnt, cntrlcnt, spacecnt, totcnt, nonprntcnt,linecnt, tabcnt ;
main()
{
int ch ; /* The input character is read in to this */
char c , class_conv() ;
asciicnt=printcnt=punctcnt=uppercnt=lowercnt=digcnt==0;
cntrlcnt=spacecnt=totcnt=nonprntcnt=linecnt=tabcnt=0;
alnumcnt=0;
while ( (ch =getchar()) != EOF )
{
totcnt++;
c = class_conv(ch) ;
putchar(c);
}
printf("The number lines of of input were %d\n",linecnt);
printf(" The character wise breakdown follows :\n");
printf(" TOTAL ASCII CNTRL PUNCT ALNUM DIGITS UPPER
LOWER SPACE TABCNT\n");
printf("%5d %5d %5d %5d %5d %5d %5d %5d %5d %5d\n",totcnt,
asciicnt, cntrlcnt, punctcnt, alnumcnt, digcnt, uppercnt,lowercnt, spacecnt, tabcnt );
}
char class_conv(ch)
char ch;
{
if (isascii(ch)) {
asciicnt++;
if ( iscntrl(ch) && ! isspace(ch)) {
nonprntcnt++ ;
cntrlcnt++ ;
return(' ');
}
else if ( isalnum(ch)) {
alnumcnt++;
if (isdigit(ch)){
digcnt++;
return(ch);
}
else if (isalpha(ch)){
if ( isupper(ch) ){
uppercnt++ ;
return(tolower(ch));
}
else if ( islower(ch) ){
lowercnt++;
return(ch);
}
else {
/*
We should never be in this situation since an alpha character can only be either uppercase or lowercase.
*/
fprintf(stderr,"Classification error for %c \n",ch);
return(NULL);
}
}
else if (ispunct(ch) ){
punctcnt++;
return(ch);
}
else if ( isspace(ch) ){
spacecnt++;
if ( ch == '\n' ){
linecnt++;
return(ch);
}
while ( (ch == '\t' ) || ( ch == ' ' ) ) {
if ( ch == '\t' ) tabcnt ++ ;
else if ( ch == ' ' ) spacecnt++ ;
totcnt++;
ch = getchar();
}
ungetc(ch,stdin);
totcnt--;
return(' ');
}
else {
/*
We should never be in this situation any ASCII character
can only belong to one of the above classifications.
*/
fprintf(stderr,"Classification error for %c \n",ch);
return(NULL);
}
}
else
{
fprintf(stdout,"Non Ascii character encountered \n");
return(toascii(ch));
}
}
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