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00.01 | Welcome to the spoken-tutorial on Strings in C and C++ |
00.06 | In this tutorial we will learn, |
00.08 | What is a string. |
00.10 | Declaration of a string. |
00.13 | Initialization of a string. |
00.15 | Few examples on string. |
00.17 | We will also see some common errors and their solutions. |
00.22 | To record this tutorial, I am using, |
00.25 | Ubuntu Operating System version 11.04 |
00.29 | gcc and g++ Compiler version 4.6.1 .
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00.35 | Let us start with the introduction to strings. |
00.38 | String is a sequence of characters, that is treated as a single data item. |
00.44 | Size of string = length of string + 1
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00.49 | Let me tell you how to declare a string. |
00.52 | The syntax for this is |
00.55 | char, name of string and size
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00.59 | char is the data type, name of the string is the string name, and we can give the size here. |
01.06 | Eg: here we have declared a character string names with size 10 |
01.13 | Now we will see an example. |
01.15 | I have already typed the program, I will open it. |
01.19 | Note that our file name is string.c |
01.23 | In this program, we will take a string as an input from the user and print it.
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01.29 | Let me explain the code now.
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01.32 | These are our header files. |
01.34 | Here string.h includes the declarations, functions, constants of string handling utilities.
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01.43 | Whenever we work on string functions, we should include this header file. |
01.47 | This is our main function. |
01.49 | Here we are declaring the string strname' with size '30'. |
01.55 | Here we are accepting a string from the user. |
01.58 | To read a string, we can use scanf() function with format specifier %s |
02.05 | We are using the caret sign and \n to include the spaces with the string. |
02.11 | Then we print the string.
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02.13 | And this is our return statement.
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02.16 | Now click on Save
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02.18 | Let us execute the program. |
02.20 | Please open the terminal window by pressing Ctrl, Alt and T keys simultaneously on your keyboard.
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02.30 | To compile, type gcc space string.c space -o space str |
02.37 | And press Enter
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02.40 | To execute, type ./str
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02.43 | now press Enter
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02.46 | Here it is displayed as Enter the string . |
02.49 | I will type Talk To A Teacher. |
02.56 | now press Enter. |
02.58 | The output is displayed as The string is Talk To A Teacher |
03.03 | Now let us switch back to our slides
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03.06 | Until now we discussed about the declaration of a string.
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03.10 | Now we are going to discuss how to initialize the string. |
03.13 | The syntax for this is |
03.16 | char var_name[size] = “string”; |
03.20 | Eg: Here we have declared a character string "names" with size 10 and the string is "Priya" |
03.28 | Another syntax is |
03.31 | char var_name[ ] = String within single quotes
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03.36 | eg: char names[10] = Priya in single quotes
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03.42 | Let me show you how to use the first syntax with an example. |
03.48 | Switch back to our Editor. We will use the same example.
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03.52 | First, press shift, ctrl and s keys simultaneously on your keyboard |
03.58 | Now save the file with the name stringinitialize |
04.03 | Now click on Save
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04.06 | We are going to initialize the string.
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04.08 | Hence, at the 5th line, type |
04.11 | = and within the double quotes “Spoken- Tutorial”;
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04.20 | Now, click on Save
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04.22 | Now remove these two lines, as we are only going to print the string. |
04.27 | Click on Save. |
04.30 | Let us execute.
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04.31 | Come back to our terminal. |
04.33 | To compile, type
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04.35 | gcc space stringinitialize.c space -o space str2
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04.44 | Here we have str2 because we don't want to overwrite the output parameter str for the file string.c |
04.54 | Now press Enter. |
04.56 | To execute, type ./str2 |
05.00 | The output is displayed as "The string is Spoken-Tutorial". |
05.06 | Now we will see some common errors which we can come across . |
05.09 | Come back to our program
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05.11 | Suppose here we type the spelling of string as sting
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05.16 | Now click on Save.
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05.18 | Let us execute |
05.19 | Come back to our terminal |
05.21 | Noe compile as before |
05.23 | We see an fatal error.
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05.25 | sting.h: no such file or directory
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05.28 | compilation terminated
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05.30 | Come back to our program. |
05.32 | This is because the compiler is not able to find the header file with the name sting.h
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05.39 | Hence it is giving an error.
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05.41 | Let us fix the error.
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05.43 | Type r here.
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05.45 | Now click on Save. |
05.46 | Let us execute again. |
05.47 | Come back to our terminal.
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05.50 | Compile as before, execute as before. |
05.54 | Yes, it is working!
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05.56 | Now, let us see another common error. |
05.59 | Come back to our program.
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06.02 | Suppose, here, I will type int in place of char.
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06.06 | Now, click on Save . |
06.07 | Let us see what happens.
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06.09 | Come back to our terminal.
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06.11 | Let me clear the prompt. |
06.15 | Compile as before. |
06.17 | We see an error. |
06.19 | Wide character array initialized from non-wide string
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06.24 | format %s expects argument of type 'char, ' but argument 2 has type 'int'
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06.32 | Come back to our program. |
06.36 | This is because we used %s as the format specifier for string. |
06.42 | And we are initializing it with an integer data type
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06.47 | Let us fix the error. |
06.49 | Type char here.
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06.51 | Click on Save. |
06.53 | Let us execute. Come back to our terminal. |
06.56 | Compile as before, execute as before.
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07.00 | Yes it is working! |
07.03 | Now we will see how to execute the same program in C++ |
07.08 | Come back to our program.
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07.11 | Let me open our file string.c |
07.15 | We will edit the code here.
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07.18 | First, press shift, ctrl and S key simultaneously on your keyboard.
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07.25 | Now save the file with an extension .cpp |
07.29 | and click on Save.
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07.33 | Now we will change the header file as iostream. |
07.38 | Include the using statement. |
07.43 | Now click on Save.
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07.47 | Now we will delete this declaration.
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07.50 | And will declare a string variable. |
07.53 | Type string space strname and a semicolon |
07.59 | Click on Save.
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08.02 | Replace the printf statement with the cout statement. |
08.07 | Delete the closing bracket here.
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08.11 | Delete the scanf statement and type getline opening bracket closing bracket within the brackets type(cin, strname) |
08.24 | At the end, type a semicolon.
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08.28 | Now again, replace the printf statement with the cout statement. |
08.36 | Delete the format specifier and \n
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08.40 | Now delete the comma
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08.42 | Type two opening angle brackets, delete the bracket here.
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08.49 | Type two opening angle brackets and within the double quotes type \n
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08.54 | And click on Save |
08.58 | Here we have declared a string variable 'strname' |
09.03 | Since we do not use the format specifier in C++, the compiler should know that strname is a string variable.
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09.13 | Here we use getline to extract the characters from the input sequence.
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09.18 | It stores them as a string.
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09.22 | Now let us execute the program. Come back to our terminal.
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09.27 | Let me clear the prompt. |
09.30 | To compile, type |
09.32 | g++ space string.cpp space -o space str3
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09.39 | and press Enter.
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09.41 | To execute, type ./str3
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09.46 | Press Enter.
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09.47 | It is displayed as Enter the string |
09.50 | I will enter as Talk To A Teacher
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09.55 | Now press Enter |
09.57 | The output is displayed as |
09.59 | "The string is Talk To A Teacher"
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10.03 | We can see that the output is similar to our C code. |
10.07 | Now come back to our slides.
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10.10 | Let us summarize |
10.11 | In this tutorial we learnt
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10.13 | Strings
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10.14 | Declaration of a string
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10.16 | eg: char strname[30] |
10.20 | Initialization of a string
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10.21 | eg: char strname[30] = “Talk To A Teacher” |
10.26 | As an assignment |
10.28 | Write a program to print a string using the 2nd syntax |
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11.16 | This is Ashwini Patil from IIT Bombay signing off. |
11.20 | Thank You for watching. |