I receive the following error when I compile my code:

blade71(154)% gcc -o vt visitype.c
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
aVal                                /var/tmp//ccrbSM18.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to vt
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
blade71(155)% cat visitype.c
#include <stdio.h>
#define MAX 1000
void aVal(char asciiname[], char S[]);
main ()
{
int i, c, j;
char asciiname[] =
        "NUL\0"  "SOH\0"  "STX\0"  "ETX\0"  "EOT\0"  "ENQ\0"  "ACK\0"  "BEL\0"
        " BS\0"  " HT\0"  " NL\0"  " VT\0"  " NP\0"  " CR\0"  " SO\0"  " SI\0"
        "DLE\0"  "DC1\0"  "DC2\0"  "DC3\0"  "DC4\0"  "NAK\0"  "SYN\0"  "ETB\0"
        "CAN\0"  " EM\0"  "SUB\0"  "ESC\0"  " FS\0"  " GS\0"  " RS\0"  " VS\0"
        " SP\0"  "  !\0"  "  \"\0" "  #\0"  "  $\0"  "  %\0"  "  &\0"  "  '\0"
        "  (\0"  "  )\0"  "  *\0"  "  +\0"  "  ,\0"  "  -\0"  "  .\0"  "  /\0"
        "  0\0"  "  1\0"  "  2\0"  "  3\0"  "  4\0"  "  5\0"  "  6\0"  "  7\0"
        "  8\0"  "  9\0"  "  :\0"  "  ;\0"  "  <\0"  "  =\0"  "  >\0"  "  ?\0"
        "  @\0"  "  A\0"  "  B\0"  "  C\0"  "  D\0"  "  E\0"  "  F\0"  "  G\0"
        "  H\0"  "  I\0"  "  J\0"  "  K\0"  "  L\0"  "  M\0"  "  N\0"  "  O\0"
        "  P\0"  "  Q\0"  "  R\0"  "  S\0"  "  T\0"  "  U\0"  "  V\0"  "  W\0"
        "  X\0"  "  Y\0"  "  Z\0"  "  [\0"  "  \\\0" "  ]\0"  "  ^\0"  "  _\0"
        "  `\0"  "  a\0"  "  b\0"  "  c\0"  "  d\0"  "  e\0"  "  f\0"  "  g\0"
        "  h\0"  "  i\0"  "  j\0"  "  k\0"  "  l\0"  "  m\0"  "  n\0"  "  o\0"
        "  p\0"  "  q\0"  "  r\0"  "  s\0"  "  t\0"  "  u\0"  "  v\0"  "  w\0"
        "  x\0"  "  y\0"  "  z\0"  "  {\0"  "  |\0"  "  }\0"  "  ~\0"  "DEL\0"
        ;
        char S[MAX], *p1;
        p1 = S;
        c = getchar();
        for (i = 0; c!=EOF; c=getchar())
        {
                S[i] = c;
                i++;
        }
        S[i] = '\0';
        aVal (S, asciiname);

        void aVal(char asciiname[], char S[])
        {
                int i, j;
                int k;
                i = 0;
                asciiname[i] = k;
                for (asciiname[i] = k; k!='\0'; i++)
                {
                        S[k] = j;
                        putchar(j);
                }
        }
}

What is wrong with A_Val? I don't quite understand why I'm getting this error. The program is just supposed to take a file in and write to the output the ASCII value of each character. It is supposed to print the ASCII name of the character followed by the hexadecimal value. I am currently just working on getting it to output the proper ascii value when given a file.

error was simple. The function was encapsulated into main rather than outside. However, my desired result is not coming out. Now I need some suggestions with the actual code. Thanks!

error was simple. The function was encapsulated into main rather than outside. However, my desired result is not coming out. Now I need some suggestions with the actual code. Thanks!

Gees, you really like doing things the hard way. Here's a simple code snippet that outputs the character:hex representations of each character of a string. See if you can incorporate some aspects of the code into your project.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void) {

    char str[] = "ABCDEFG";
    int i;

    for (i = 0; i < strlen(str); ++i) {
        printf("%c:%x ", str[i], str[i]);
    }

    return 0;
}

Gees, you really like doing things the hard way. Here's a simple code snippet that outputs the character:hex representations of each character of a string. See if you can incorporate some aspects of the code into your project.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void) {

    char str[] = "ABCDEFG";
    int i;

    for (i = 0; i < strlen(str); ++i) {
        printf("%c:%x ", str[i], str[i]);
    }

    return 0;
}

The assignment does not allow strlen or str. I can only use getchar and putchar to read/write standard I/O

Updated code:

blade71(7)% gcc -o vt visitype.c
blade71(8)% vt<vt.in>vt.out
blade71(9)% od -x vt.in
0000000 0102 7d7e 612c 627a 5c7f 5a0a
0000014
blade71(10)% od -x vt.out
0000000 554c 5653 4120 4e53 4500 4e58
0000014
blade71(11)% cat vt.out
ULVSA NSENXblade71(12)% cat vt.in
}~a,bzZ
blade71(13)% cat visitype.c
#include <stdio.h>
#define MAX 1000

void aVal(char asciiname[], char S[]);

main ()
{
int i, c, j;
char asciiname[] =
        "NUL\0"  "SOH\0"  "STX\0"  "ETX\0"  "EOT\0"  "ENQ\0"  "ACK\0"  "BEL\0"
        " BS\0"  " HT\0"  " NL\0"  " VT\0"  " NP\0"  " CR\0"  " SO\0"  " SI\0"
        "DLE\0"  "DC1\0"  "DC2\0"  "DC3\0"  "DC4\0"  "NAK\0"  "SYN\0"  "ETB\0"
        "CAN\0"  " EM\0"  "SUB\0"  "ESC\0"  " FS\0"  " GS\0"  " RS\0"  " VS\0"
        " SP\0"  "  !\0"  "  \"\0" "  #\0"  "  $\0"  "  %\0"  "  &\0"  "  '\0"
        "  (\0"  "  )\0"  "  *\0"  "  +\0"  "  ,\0"  "  -\0"  "  .\0"  "  /\0"
        "  0\0"  "  1\0"  "  2\0"  "  3\0"  "  4\0"  "  5\0"  "  6\0"  "  7\0"
        "  8\0"  "  9\0"  "  :\0"  "  ;\0"  "  <\0"  "  =\0"  "  >\0"  "  ?\0"
        "  @\0"  "  A\0"  "  B\0"  "  C\0"  "  D\0"  "  E\0"  "  F\0"  "  G\0"
        "  H\0"  "  I\0"  "  J\0"  "  K\0"  "  L\0"  "  M\0"  "  N\0"  "  O\0"
        "  P\0"  "  Q\0"  "  R\0"  "  S\0"  "  T\0"  "  U\0"  "  V\0"  "  W\0"
        "  X\0"  "  Y\0"  "  Z\0"  "  [\0"  "  \\\0" "  ]\0"  "  ^\0"  "  _\0"
        "  `\0"  "  a\0"  "  b\0"  "  c\0"  "  d\0"  "  e\0"  "  f\0"  "  g\0"
        "  h\0"  "  i\0"  "  j\0"  "  k\0"  "  l\0"  "  m\0"  "  n\0"  "  o\0"
        "  p\0"  "  q\0"  "  r\0"  "  s\0"  "  t\0"  "  u\0"  "  v\0"  "  w\0"
        "  x\0"  "  y\0"  "  z\0"  "  {\0"  "  |\0"  "  }\0"  "  ~\0"  "DEL\0"
        ;
        char S[MAX], *p1;
        p1 = S;
        c = getchar();
        for (i = 0; c!=EOF; c=getchar())
        {
                S[i] = c;
                i++;
        }
        S[i] = '\0';
        aVal (asciiname, S);
}
        void aVal(char asciiname[], char S[])
        {
                int i, j;
                int k;
                i = 0;
                k = S[i];
                for ( i = 0; k!='\0'; k = S[i])
                {
                        j = asciiname[k];
                        putchar(j);
                        i++;
                }
                S[i] = '\0';

        }

as you can see I am getting output, however not the desired output.

...I am getting the desired output. However, I need to use printf in place of putchar to print the value and also have it print the hexadecimal value of j.

After using printf I realized my output is in fact wrong:

blade71(130)% gcc -o vt visitype.c
blade71(131)% vt < vt.in > vt.out
blade71(132)% cat vt.out
The code  55 represents   U
The code  4c represents   L
The code  56 represents   V
The code  53 represents   S
The code  41 represents   A
The code  20 represents  SP
The code  4e represents   N
The code  53 represents   S
The code  45 represents   E
The code   0 represents NUL
The code  4e represents   N
The code  58 represents   X
blade71(133)% cat vt.in
}~a,bzZ
blade71(134)% od -x vt.in
0000000 0102 7d7e 612c 627a 5c7f 5a0a
0000014
blade71(135)% cat visitype.c
#include <stdio.h>
#define MAX 1000

void aVal(char asciiname[], char S[]);

main ()
{
int i, c, j;
char asciiname[] =
        "NUL\0"  "SOH\0"  "STX\0"  "ETX\0"  "EOT\0"  "ENQ\0"  "ACK\0"  "BEL\0"
        " BS\0"  " HT\0"  " NL\0"  " VT\0"  " NP\0"  " CR\0"  " SO\0"  " SI\0"
        "DLE\0"  "DC1\0"  "DC2\0"  "DC3\0"  "DC4\0"  "NAK\0"  "SYN\0"  "ETB\0"
        "CAN\0"  " EM\0"  "SUB\0"  "ESC\0"  " FS\0"  " GS\0"  " RS\0"  " VS\0"
        " SP\0"  "  !\0"  "  \"\0" "  #\0"  "  $\0"  "  %\0"  "  &\0"  "  '\0"
        "  (\0"  "  )\0"  "  *\0"  "  +\0"  "  ,\0"  "  -\0"  "  .\0"  "  /\0"
        "  0\0"  "  1\0"  "  2\0"  "  3\0"  "  4\0"  "  5\0"  "  6\0"  "  7\0"
        "  8\0"  "  9\0"  "  :\0"  "  ;\0"  "  <\0"  "  =\0"  "  >\0"  "  ?\0"
        "  @\0"  "  A\0"  "  B\0"  "  C\0"  "  D\0"  "  E\0"  "  F\0"  "  G\0"
        "  H\0"  "  I\0"  "  J\0"  "  K\0"  "  L\0"  "  M\0"  "  N\0"  "  O\0"
        "  P\0"  "  Q\0"  "  R\0"  "  S\0"  "  T\0"  "  U\0"  "  V\0"  "  W\0"
        "  X\0"  "  Y\0"  "  Z\0"  "  [\0"  "  \\\0" "  ]\0"  "  ^\0"  "  _\0"
        "  `\0"  "  a\0"  "  b\0"  "  c\0"  "  d\0"  "  e\0"  "  f\0"  "  g\0"
        "  h\0"  "  i\0"  "  j\0"  "  k\0"  "  l\0"  "  m\0"  "  n\0"  "  o\0"
        "  p\0"  "  q\0"  "  r\0"  "  s\0"  "  t\0"  "  u\0"  "  v\0"  "  w\0"
        "  x\0"  "  y\0"  "  z\0"  "  {\0"  "  |\0"  "  }\0"  "  ~\0"  "DEL\0"
        ;
        char S[MAX], *p1;
        p1 = S;
        c = getchar();
        for (i = 0; c!=EOF; c=getchar())
        {
                S[i] = c;
                i++;
        }
        S[i] = '\0';
        aVal (asciiname, S);
}
        void aVal(char asciiname[], char S[])
        {
                int i, j;
                int k;
                i = 0;
                k = S[i];
                for ( i = 0; k!='\0'; k = S[i])
                {
                        j = asciiname[k];
                        printf("The code %3x represents %s\n", j, &asciiname[4*j]);
                        i++;
                }
                S[i] = '\0';

        }
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