Re: Two dimensional array Question

[sigh]

Richard Heathfield said:

> mdh said:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> Although once admonished for writing code to figure things out, a weak
>> attempt follows.
> 
> Writing code "to figure things out" is a two-edged sword. It can
> certainly be helpful for discovering how things *appear* to work, but it
> is a poor guide for discovering how things *must* work. For example, the
> way a for-loop works is well-defined, so if we've forgotten whether the
> increment step (it isn't necessarily an increment, but let's keep things
> simple) of a for-loop is always executed at least once, we can write a
> quick program to find out:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main(void)
> {
>   int i;
>   int j = 0;
>   for(i = 0; i < j; i++)
>   {
>     printf("i is now %d\n");

Spot both...

>   }
>   printf("Outside the loop, i is now %d\n");

....mistakes.  :-(

>   return 0;
> }
> 
> and this is perfectly okay

....after fixing!

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