In C programming, a single Array element or an entire array can be passed to a function. Also, both one-dimensional and multi-dimensional array can be passed to function as argument.
Passing One-dimensional Array In Function
C program to pass a single element of an array to function
#include
void display(int a)
{
printf("%d",a);
}
int main(){
int c[]={2,3,4};
display(c[2]); //Passing array element c[2] only.
return 0;
}
Output
4
Single element of an array can be passed in similar manner as passing variable to a function.
Passing entire one-dimensional array to a function
While passing arrays to the argument, the name of the array is passed as an argument(,i.e, starting address of memory area is passed as argument).
Write a C program to pass an array containing age of person to a function. This function should find average age and display the average age in main function.
#include
float average(float a[]);
int main(){
float avg, c[]={23.4, 55, 22.6, 3, 40.5, 18};
avg=average(c); /* Only name of array is passed as argument. */
printf("Average age=%.2f",avg);
return 0;
}
float average(float a[]){
int i;
float avg, sum=0.0;
for(i=0;i
sum+=a[i];
}
avg =(sum/6);
return avg;
}
Output
Average age=27.08
Passing Multi-dimensional Arrays to Function
To pass two-dimensional array to a function as an argument, starting address of memory area reserved is passed as in one dimensional array
Example to pass two-dimensional arrays to function
#include
void Function(int c[2][2]);
int main(){
int c[2][2],i,j;
printf("Enter 4 numbers:\n");
for(i=0;i
for(j=0;j
scanf("%d",&c[i][j]);
}
Function(c); /* passing multi-dimensional array to function */
return 0;
}
void Function(int c[2][2]){
/* Instead to above line, void Function(int c[][2]){ is also valid */
int i,j;
printf("Displaying:\n");
for(i=0;i
for(j=0;j
printf("%d\n",c[i][j]);
}
Output
Enter 4 numbers:
2
3
4
5
Displaying:
2
3
4
5
