Separating interface from implementation has many practical benefits. Here’s a simple way to do just that, in ANSI-standard C code. How do you organize medium-sized or larger C programs? Few C ...

A common task for a program is to read data from a file. To read from a text file in C, you will need to open a file stream using the fopen() function. Once a file stream has been opened, you can then ...

I have a C program, and want to run some other program ("ftp", if you must know). I also want to be able to feed commands (like "open <hostname>") into ftp's stdin. However, my attempts haven't been ...

I know many other languages use the eval() function to take a string argument and evaluate it as part of the source code (so you can run a function or assign a variable etc). I've seen it in PHP, ...

Abstract A new characterization of the exact minimax penalty function method is presented. The exactness of the penalization for the exact minimax penalty function method is analyzed in the context of ...