arraysccharc-stringstoupper

how to access a character in an array of strings in c


I have been trying to uppercase the first letter of a string which is inside an array of strings I tried a lot of methods but none of them worked here is my code:

 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 int nw=0;
 char words[30][50];
 int main(){
 printf("enter your words when you finish write b\n");
 do{
 nw++;
 scanf("%s",&words[nw]);
 }while(strcmp(&words[nw],"b")!=0);
 printf("%s",toupper(&words[1][0]));
 }

what should I do please help


Solution

  • For starters you need to include headers <ctype.h> and <string.h>

    #include <ctype.h>
    #include <string.h>
    

    There is no great sense to declare these variables

    int nw=0;
    char words[30][50];
    

    in the file scope. They could be declared in main.

    Instead of this call

    scanf("%s",&words[nw]);
    

    you have to write at least

    scanf("%s", words[nw]);
    

    The condition in the do-while statement should look like

    while( nw < 30 && strcmp(words[nw],"b") != 0 );
    

    And instead of this call'

    printf("%s",toupper(&words[1][0]));
    

    you should write

    words[1][0] = toupper( ( unsigned char )words[1][0] );
    printf( "%s", words[1] );
    

    Here is a demonstrative program.

    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <ctype.h>
    
    int main(void) 
    {
        char words[30][50] =
        {
            "hello", "world!"
        };
        
        for ( size_t i = 0; words[i][0] != '\0'; i++ )
        {
            words[i][0] = toupper( ( unsigned char )words[i][0] );
            printf( "%s ", words[i] );
        }
        putchar( '\n' );
        
        return 0;
    }
    

    The program output is

    Hello World!