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Oct 19th, 2009

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Originally Posted by Shillz

how can we use a printf statement without a semicolon???
this was a question asked during an interview of a computer engineering student.

Assuming this was a job interview, I suggest you stay away from any job that asks foolish questions like this. I would not want to work for a company that want it's programmers to use tricks that make code unreadable.

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Oct 19th, 2009

well maybe u can define ; as a other name then use other name as derived type

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Oct 19th, 2009

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Originally Posted by Shillz

how can we use a printf statement without a semicolon???
this was a question asked during an interview of a computer engineering student.

You can always put the call to printf in an if-statement, like this:

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#include <stdio.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    if( printf("Hello World!\n") ) {}
    return 0;
}
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    if( printf("Hello World!\n") ) {}
    return 0;
}

As you can see, no semicolon is needed to invoke the printf function.

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Originally Posted by WaltP

Assuming this was a job interview, I suggest you stay away from any job that asks foolish questions like this. I would not want to work for a company that want it's programmers to use tricks that make code unreadable.

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