pombredanne / c_snippets

Various C learning projects and snippets

C Code Fragments

This project contains my experiments and exercises in C, as well as various snippets that I might re-user later. Some of them are back from the times when I was just learning C, thus they might not be of the highest quality.

Contents:

• hash table that compiles into both a static library (htable.a) or a shared one (htable.so)
• wordcount program that counts word frequency using the above hash table
• a very limited re-implementation of the UNIX program tail (has a fixed limit of how long an input line can be)

Usage:

You will need the gcc compiler and build tools, which you can get by running on Debian-based systems like Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

Afterwards, just run:

$ make
$ make tests  # you will need `valgrind` and `cppcheck` for this

Program usage examples:

$ cat tests/files/wordcount_simple2.txt| ./wordcount
1 elephant
2 giraffe
5 cow
3 dog

$ ./tail -3 tests/files/book.txt
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