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The C Programming Language, Ansi C


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Preface

Preface to the first edition

Introduction

Chapter 1: A Tutorial Introduction

Getting Started

Variables and Arithmetic Expressions

The for statement

Symbolic Constants

Character Input and Output

File Copying

Character Counting

Line Counting

Word Counting

Arrays

Functions

Arguments - Call by Value

Character Arrays

External Variables and Scope

Chapter 2: Types, Operators and Expressions

Variable Names

Data Types and Sizes

Constants

Declarations

Arithmetic Operators

Relational and Logical Operators

Type Conversions

Increment and Decrement Operators

Bitwise Operators

Assignment Operators and Expressions

Conditional Expressions

Precedence and Order of Evaluation

Chapter 3: Control Flow

Statements and Blocks

If-Else

Else-If

Switch

Loops - While and For

Loops - Do-While

Break and Continue

Goto and labels

Chapter 4: Functions and Program Structure

Basics of Functions

Functions Returning Non-integers

External Variables

Scope Rules

Header Files

Static Variables

Register Variables

Block Structure

Initialization

Recursion

The C Preprocessor

File Inclusion

Macro Substitution

Conditional Inclusion

Chapter 5: Pointers and Arrays

Pointers and Addresses

Pointers and Function Arguments

Pointers and Arrays

Address Arithmetic

Character Pointers and Functions

Pointer Arrays; Pointers to Pointers

Multi-dimensional Arrays

Initialization of Pointer Arrays

Pointers vs. Multi-dimensional Arrays

Command-line Arguments

Pointers to Functions

Complicated Declarations

Chapter 6: Structures

Basics of Structures

Structures and Functions

Arrays of Structures

Pointers to Structures

Self-referential Structures

Table Lookup

Typedef

Unions

Bit-fields

Chapter 7: Input and Output

Standard Input and Output

Formatted Output - printf

Variable-length Argument Lists

Formatted Input - Scanf

File Access

Error Handling - Stderr and Exit

Line Input and Output

Miscellaneous Functions

String Operations

Character Class Testing and Conversion

Ungetc

Command Execution

Storage Management

Mathematical Functions

Random Number generation

Chapter 8: The UNIX System Interface

File Descriptors

Low Level I/O - Read and Write

Open, Creat, Close, Unlink

Random Access - Lseek

Example - An implementation of Fopen and Getc

Example - Listing Directories

Example - A Storage Allocator

Appendix A: Reference Manual

Introduction

Lexical Conventions

Syntax Notation

Meaning of Identifiers

Objects and Lvalues

Conversions

Expressions

Declarations

Statements

External Declarations

Scope and Linkage

Preprocessor

Grammar

Appendix B: Standard Library

Input and Output:

File Operations

Formatted Output

Formatted Input

Character Input and Output Functions