Remove zero entries from an array in C

I have an array of values x = {0,0,1,2,3,0,0,7,8} and I want to remove the zero entries using C.

Attempt:

I am attempting to loop through each value in the array and check if the entry is not equal to zero. If this condition is true, then I am attempting to populate a new array with original array value.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

int main() {
    int x[] = { 0, 0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 0, 7, 8 };
    int i;
    int x_upd[100];
    for (i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
        if (x[i] != 0) {
            x_upd[i] = x[i]; // if true, populate new array with value
        }
    }
    for (i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
        printf(" Peak updated %d\t", x_upd[i]); //
    }
    return 0;
}

The output is not giving me the values {1,2,3,7,8} as desired. Instead, I am getting garbage values at the location where the zeros used to be.

Any advice on what I am doing wrong here? Do I need an else statement?

There is already such a function in C++. It is named remove_copy. In C such a function can look the following way as it is shown in the demonstrative program below.

#include <stdio.h>

int * remove_copy(const int *in, size_t n, int *out, int value)
{
    for (size_t i = 0; i != n; i++)
    {
        if (in[i] != value) *out++ = in[i];
    }

    return out;
}

int main( void )
{
    int a[] = { 0, 0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 0, 7, 8 };
    int b[sizeof(a) / sizeof(*a)];
    const size_t N = sizeof(a) / sizeof(*a);

    int *last = remove_copy(a, N, b, 0);

    for (int *first = b; first != last; ++first)
    {
        printf("%d ", *first);
    }

    putchar('\n');

    return 0;
}

The program output is

1 2 3 7 8

Or the function can return the number of the copied values

size_t remove_copy(const int *in, size_t n, int *out, int value)
{
    size_t m = 0;

    for (size_t i = 0; i != n; i++)
    {
        if (in[i] != value) out[m++] = in[i];
    }

    return m;
}

As for your code then you need to use an additional variable that will keep the index in the destination array. For example

int m = 0;

for ( i = 0; i < sizeof( x ) / sizeof( *x ); i++ )
{
    if ( x[i] != 0 )
    {
        x_upd[m++] = x[i]; // if true, populate new array with value
    }
}

for ( i = 0; i < m; i++ )
{
    printf(" Peak updated %d\t", x_upd[i] ); //
}

In fact the first loop corresponds to the second function implementation shown above.