From f45abea9c338e9ebdc78601839a11b28166bb16a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Schronk <steven@schronk.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:56:43 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Example working with char arrays.

---
 char_arrays.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 char_arrays.c

diff --git a/char_arrays.c b/char_arrays.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7777e98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/char_arrays.c
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#define MAXLINE 1000
+
+int getline(char line[], int maxline);
+void copy(char to[], char from[]);
+
+main()
+{
+  int len;                /* current line length */
+  int max;                /* maximum length seen so far */
+  char line[MAXLINE];     /* current input line */
+  char longest[MAXLINE];  /* longest line saved here */
+
+  max = 0;
+  while ((len = getline(line, MAXLINE)) > 0)
+    if(len > max)
+    {
+      max = len;
+      copy(longest, line);
+    }
+  if (max > 0)
+    printf("%s", longest);
+  return 0;
+}
+
+/* getline: read a line into s, return length */
+int getline(char s[], int lim)
+{
+  int c, i;
+
+  for (i = 0; i<lim-1 && (c = getchar()) != EOF && c!='\n'; ++i)
+    s[i] = c;
+  if(c == '\n')
+  {
+    s[i] = c;
+    ++i;
+  }
+  s[i] = '\0';
+  return i;
+}
+
+/* copy: copy 'from' into 'to'; assume to is big enough */
+void copy(char to[], char from[])
+{
+  int i;
+  i = 0;
+  while ((to[i] = from[i]) != '\0')
+    ++i;
+}
+
-- 
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