Returning Arrays/Pointers from a function

Question

I am trying to create a new integer array which is derived from a string of characters. For example :

char x[] = \"12334 23845 32084\";  

int y[] = { 12334,         


        

Answer 1

You can wrap an array in a structure and then return an instance of the structure. I'm mentioning this for completeness, it's not really something you'd want to do as it's ugly and there are better alternatives.

#include 

struct retval
{
    int a[10];
};

struct retval test()
{
    struct retval v = {{1, 5, 6}};
    return v;
}

int main()
{
    struct retval data = test();
    printf("%d %d\n", data.a[1], data.a[2]);
}