C Two-Dimensional Array

Aaron picture Aaron · May 24, 2011 · Viewed 23.7k times · Source

I'm going to ask something about my code provided below... My question is in the line where there's a comment /*This line*/. I used variable y and x: y for the HEIGHT and x for the WIDTH. The very first time I run the program, the code was scanf("%d,%d", &y, &x); but unfortunately, the program was not running properly. But when I modified the code with this scanf("%d,%d", &x, &y);, then, I was able to run the program in turn. I can't understand how it happened, since I had set the y as HEIGHT and x as WIDTH?

   File   Edit   Run   Compile   Project   Options   Debug   Break/watch
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│      Line 1     Col 43  Insert Indent Tab Fill Unindent * C:NONAME.C         │
│#define HEIGHT 5                                                              │
│#define WIDTH 10                                                              │
│                                                                              │
│char enemy[HEIGHT][WIDTH]=                                                    │
│        { {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},                                              │
│          {0,1,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,0},                                              │
│          {0,0,0,1,0,1,0,1,1,0},                                              │
│          {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1},                                              │
│          {0,0,1,1,0,1,0,0,0,1} };                                            │
│                                                                              │
│main()                                                                        │
│{                                                                             │
│        char friend[HEIGHT][WIDTH];                                           │
│        int x,y;                                                              │
│                                                                              │
│        clrscr();                                                             │
│                                                                              │
│        for(y=0; y<HEIGHT; y++)                                               |
|               for(x=0; x<WIDTH; x++)                                         |
|                      friend[y][x]='.';                                       |
|                                                                              |
|        while(x >= 0)                                                         |
|        {                                                                     |
|                for(y=0; y<HEIGHT; y++)                                       |
|                {                                                             |
|                        for(x=0; x<WIDTH; x++)                                |
|                                printf("%c", friend[y][x]);                   |
|                        printf("\n");                                         |
|                }                                                             |
|                                                                              |
|                printf("Coordinates: ");                                      |
|                scanf("%d,%d", &x, &y);                       /*This line*/   |
|                                                                              |
|                if(enemy[y][x] == 1)                                          |
|                        friend[y][x]="\xDB";                                  |
|               else                                                           |
|                        friend[y][x]="\xB0";                                  | 
|        }                                                                     |
|}                                                                             │
├─────────────────────────────────── Watch ────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                                              │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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Answer

Baltasarq picture Baltasarq · May 24, 2011

The problem is the input data. 5,2 meant row 5, column 2, and the problem is that row 5 does not exist (Height is 5, so you have rows from 0 to 4). As soon as you changed the values, they became 2, 5, which correctly point to row 2 (third row) and column 5 (sixth column).