From 4d7a74593beaa722625c10599e920ecb471e3c5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tmeissner <programming@goodcleanfun.de>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 14:36:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] new examples of string initialisation

---
 c_pointers/chapter_5.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/c_pointers/chapter_5.c b/c_pointers/chapter_5.c
index c3adceb..afbe96c 100644
--- a/c_pointers/chapter_5.c
+++ b/c_pointers/chapter_5.c
@@ -10,17 +10,49 @@ int main(void) {
     printf("%zu\n", sizeof('a'));
 
 
-
     // when a string is not a constant
     // doesn't work with gcc anymore, also with -Wno-deprecated-writable-strings
     // gives 'Bus error: 10'
     {
         char *tabHeader = "Sound";
-        *tabHeader = 'L';
+        //*tabHeader = 'L';
         printf("%s\n", tabHeader);
     }
 
 
+    // string initialization
+    {
+        // array of char
+        char header[] = "Media Player";
+        printf("%s\n", header);
+
+        header[0] = 'W';
+        header[1] = 'u';
+        header[2] = 'r';
+        header[3] = 's';
+        header[4] = 't';
+        header[5] = '\0';
+        printf("%s\n", header);
+
+        // pointer to char (with memory allocation)
+        char *headerPtr = malloc(strlen("Media Player") + 1);
+        strcpy(headerPtr, "Media Player");
+        printf("%s\n", headerPtr);
+
+        *headerPtr       = 'W';
+        *(headerPtr + 1) = 'u';
+        *(headerPtr + 2) = 'r';
+        *(headerPtr + 3) = 's';
+        *(headerPtr + 4) = 't';
+        *(headerPtr + 5) = '\0';
+        printf("%s\n", headerPtr);
+        for (size_t j = 0; j < strlen(headerPtr); j++) {
+            printf("headerPtr[%zu] Address: %p  Value: %c\n", j, &headerPtr[j], headerPtr[j]);
+        }
+        printf("\n");
+
+    }
+
     return 0;
 
 }
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