C Cheatsheet

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C Cheatsheet
Table of content
Boilerplate Code
printf() function
scanf() function
Variables
Basic Data Types
Format Specifiers
Escape Sequences
Operators
Conditional Statements
If Statement
If-Else Statements
If Else-If Statements
Switch Case Statements
Iterative Statements
While loop
Do-While Loop
For Loop
Break Statement
Continue Statement
Functions
Recursion
Pointers
Arrays
Strings
Important String Functions
Structures
Dynamic Memory Allocation
File Handling

Boilerplate Code

#include<stdio.h>
int main(){
return 0;
}

printf() function

It is used to print anything/show output on console

printf("Hello World");

scanf() function

It is used to take input from user

scanf("format specifier",variable_name);

Variables

It is data name that is used to store the data value in the memory.

Rules to declare variables:

Variable
Valid? Why?
Name
 Variable
Valid? Why?
Name

Not keywords are not allowed

int
Valid

Not
amount$ Dollar Sign is not allowed
Valid

Not Space between variable name is not

your name
Valid allowed

average_score Valid underscore can be used as space

First_name Valid -

int_type Valid Keywords can be used as combination

Basic Data Types

char - It stores single character. Size - 1 byte

char var_name = 'a';

// Another example
char var_name2 = 'x';

int - It stores an integer value. Size - 4 bytes

int age = 18;

//Another example
int amount = 10000;

float - It stores an floating point value with 6 digit precision. Size - 4 bytes

float radius = 5.8;

//Another example
float area = 15.2;

double - It stores an float value with 14 digit precision. Size - 8 bytes.

double var = 12.1531452;

//Another Example
double more_var = 542.12452;

void - Represents the absence of type.

void main(){
//does not return anything.
}

Format Specifiers

Format Specifier Type

%c Character

%d Integer

%f float

%lf double
 Format Specifier Type

%l long

%Lf long double

%lld long long

octal
%o
representation

%p pointer

%s string

%% prints % symbol

Escape Sequences

Escape
Type
Sequence

Produces Alarm/Beep
\a
Sound

\b Backspace

\f Form Feed

\n New Line

\t Tab Space

\v Tab Space - Vertically

\\ Backslash

\" Double Quote

\' Single Quote

\? Question Mark

Operators

Arithmetic Operators

Operators Example Meaning

+ a+b Addition or unary plus

- a-b Subtraction or unary minus

* a*b Multiplication

/ a/b Division

Modulo Division-Gives
% a%b
remainder

Relational Operators

Operator Example Meaning

< a<b is less than

 Operator Example Meaning

> a>b is greater than

<= a<=b is less than or equal to

is greater than or equal

>= a>=b
to

Logical Operators

Operator Example Meaning

logical
&& a && b
AND

|| a || b logical OR

! a!b logical NOT

Learn more about logic gates here

Increment and Decrement Operators

variable_name++ Here ++ is a increment operator, it increments the value of variable by 1. variable_name-- Here -- is a decrement operator and it
decrements the value of variable by 1.

More examples:

int a = 1; // a value is 1
a++; // Now Value becomes 2

int b = 5; // b value is 5
b--; // Now, b value is 4

Conditional Statements

If Statement

if(codition)
{
//statements or code
}
//example
int a = 1, b = 5;
if(a < b){
printf("A is smaller");
}

If-Else Statements

if(condition){
//statements
}
else{
//statements
}
//example
int a=1; b=5;
if(a < b){
printf("A is smaller");
}
else{
printf("B is smaller");
}
If Else-If Statements

if(condtion){
//code
}
else if(another_condtion){
//code
}
else{
//code
}

Switch Case Statements

switch(expression)
{
case constant-expression:
statement1;
statements2;
break;
case constant-expression:
another_statements;
break;

.....(n number of cases)

default;
statements;
}

Iterative Statements

It executes the statements inside a block of loop until condition is false

While loop

while(condition){

//code
}
//example

int a = 10;
while(a <=10){
printf("%d",a);
}//will print 1 to 10

Do-While Loop

do{
// code
}
while(codition);

For Loop

for(int i=0; i < counter; i++){

// code
}

Break Statement

Break keyword is used to terminate the loop.

 break;

Continue Statement

Continue keyword skips the rest of iterative code of loop and return to starting point of loop.

continue;

Functions

Functions are used to divide the code and to avoid repetitive task. It provides reusability and readability to code. Function Declaration

return_type function_name(data_type-parameters){
//code
}
// Example of function to add two numbers

int add(int a, int b){

return a+b;
}

Recursion

Recursion is the process of repeating items in a self-similar way.If a program allows you to call a function inside the same function, then it is called a recursive call of
the function.

void myFunction(){
myFunction(); //Function calling itself
}

//Factorial Using Recursion

long factorial(long n){
if(n==0){
return 1;
}
return n * factorial(n -1);
}

int main(){
int n = 5;
printf("Factorial of %d is %l.",n,factorial(n));
return 0;
}
//OUTPUT : Factorial of 5 is 120.

Pointers

Pointer is a variable that contains the address of another variable.

datatype *var_name;

Arrays

Array is an collection of data of same data-type.

Declaration

data_type array_name[array_size];

Fetching Array Element Array index starts from 0.

data_type variable_name = arr[index]

 //Example

int arr = {1,2,3,4,5};

printf("%d",arr[0])
//OUTPUT : 1

Strings

It is basically 1D character array. It character of string is null character (\0) Declaration

char string_name[size];

Important String Functions

gets() function It is used to take input of multi-character string

gets("string");

puts() function It is used to show string output

puts("string");

strlen() function It prints the length of string.

strlen(string_name);

strcat() function It is used to concatenate two strings.

strcat(string1, string2);

strcmp() function It is used to compare two strings. Gives output in 0/1.

strcmp(string1, string2);

strcpy() function It is used to copy the content of 1st string to another string.

strcpy(string1, string2);

Structures

A structure creates a data type that can be used to group items of possibly different types into a single type. Declaration

struct student
{
char name[50];
int class;
float percentage;
char college[50];
}; //Notice the semicolon

Dynamic Memory Allocation

If you are aware of the size of an array, then it is easy and you can define it as an array. For example, to store a name of any person, it can go up to a maximum of 100
characters. But now let us consider a situation where you have no idea about the length of the text you need to store, for example, you want to store a detailed
description about a topic. Here we need to define a pointer to character without defining how much memory is required and later. So we use Dynamic Memory
Allocation.

malloc() function Stands for 'Memory allocation' and reserves a block of memory with the given amount of bytes.

var = (casting_type*)malloc(size);
//Example
var = (int*)malloc(n * sizeof(int))
calloc() function Stands for “contiguous allocation” method in C is used to dynamically allocate the specified number of blocks of memory of the specified type.

var = (cast_type*)calloc(n, size);

realloc() function If the allocated memory is insufficient, then we can change the size of previously allocated memory using this function for efficiency purposes.

var = realloc(var2,n);

File Handling

Creating File Pointer

FILE *file

Opening a File

file = fopen(file_name.txt,w)

fscanf() function Used to read file content

fscanf(FILE *stream, const char *format, ..);

fprintf() function Used to write the file content

fprintf(FILE *var, const char *str,..);

Closing a File

fclose(file);

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