How to Count Variable Numbers of Arguments in C?
C supports variable numbers of arguments. But there is no language provided way for finding out total number of arguments passed. User has to handle this in one of the following ways:
1) By passing first argument as count of arguments.
2) By passing last argument as NULL (or 0).
3) Using some printf (or scanf) like mechanism where first argument has placeholders for rest of the arguments.
Following is an example that uses first argument arg_count to hold count of other arguments.
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int min( int arg_count, ...)
{
int i;
int min, a;
va_list ap;
va_start (ap, arg_count);
min = va_arg (ap, int );
for (i = 2; i <= arg_count; i++) {
if ((a = va_arg (ap, int )) < min)
min = a;
}
va_end (ap);
return min;
}
int main()
{
int count = 5;
printf ( "Minimum value is %d" , min(count, 12, 67, 6, 7, 100));
getchar ();
return 0;
}
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Output:
Minimum value is 6
Last Updated :
28 May, 2017
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