Help with C puzzle
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I found a site with some complicated C puzzles. Right now I'm dealing with this:
The following is a piece of C code, whose intention was to print a minus sign 20 times. But you can notice that, it doesn't work.
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int i;
int n = 20;
for( i = 0; i < n; i-- )
printf("-");
return 0;
}
Well fixing the above code is straight-forward. To make the problem interesting, you have to fix the above code, by changing exactly one character. There are three known solutions. See if you can get all those three.
I cannot figure out how to solve. I know that it can be fixed by changing --
to ++
, but I can't figure out what single character to change to make it work.
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