{"id":9995,"date":"2022-09-21T18:39:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T13:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-c-is-there-a-way-to-leave-a-variable-unchanged-outside-of-the-loop\/"},"modified":"2022-09-21T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T13:09:08","slug":"solved-c-is-there-a-way-to-leave-a-variable-unchanged-outside-of-the-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-c-is-there-a-way-to-leave-a-variable-unchanged-outside-of-the-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] C &#8211; Is there a way to leave a variable unchanged outside of the loop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-44737438\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"44737438\" data-parentid=\"44737363\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>You may be looking for the declaration of additional blocks as in<\/p>\n<pre><code>#include&lt;stdio.h&gt;\nint main() {\n  int i=1;\n  printf(\"before %d\\n\",i);\n  {\n    int i=0;\n    printf(\"within %d\\n\",i);\n  }\n  printf(\"after %d\\n\",i);\n  return(0);\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>which when executed yields<\/p>\n<pre><code>before 1\nwithin 0\nafter 1\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>From the comment I grasp that a function invocation may be preferable which may be like<\/p>\n<pre><code>#include&lt;stdio.h&gt;\nint div_10_count(long long val) {\n    int count=0;\n    while(val&gt;0) {\n        val \/= 10;\n        count++;\n    }\n    return(count);\n}\n\nint main() {\n  long long val=10000000000L;\n  printf(\"Before: val=%lld\\n\",val);\n  printf(\"Returned: %d\\n\",div_10_count(val));\n  printf(\"After: val=%lld\\n\",val);\n  return(0);\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>shows<\/p>\n<pre><code>Before: val=10000000000\nReturned: 11\nAfter: val=10000000000\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>so the variable val remains unchanged even though the function works with it. This would be different when passing the parameter by reference, i.e. as indicated with the &#8220;&amp;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">2<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved C &#8211; Is there a way to leave a variable unchanged outside of the loop? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] You may be looking for the declaration of additional blocks as in #include&lt;stdio.h&gt; int main() { int i=1; printf(&#8220;before %d\\n&#8221;,i); { int i=0; printf(&#8220;within %d\\n&#8221;,i); } printf(&#8220;after %d\\n&#8221;,i); return(0); } which when executed yields before 1 within 0 after 1 From the comment I grasp that a function invocation may be preferable which may &#8230; <a title=\"[Solved] C &#8211; Is there a way to leave a variable unchanged outside of the loop?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-c-is-there-a-way-to-leave-a-variable-unchanged-outside-of-the-loop\/\" aria-label=\"More on [Solved] C &#8211; Is there a way to leave a variable unchanged outside of the loop?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[324,816],"class_list":["post-9995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solved","tag-c","tag-cs50"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>[Solved] C - Is there a way to leave a variable unchanged outside of the loop? - JassWeb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-c-is-there-a-way-to-leave-a-variable-unchanged-outside-of-the-loop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Solved] C - Is there a way to leave a variable unchanged outside of the loop? - JassWeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[ad_1] You may be looking for the declaration of additional blocks as in #include&lt;stdio.h&gt; int main() { int i=1; printf(&quot;before %dn&quot;,i); { int i=0; printf(&quot;within %dn&quot;,i); } printf(&quot;after %dn&quot;,i); return(0); } which when executed yields before 1 within 0 after 1 From the comment I grasp that a function invocation may be preferable which may ... 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