Simple Coding Challenge

[nG Inverse]

Attempt taking albinopapa's approach

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#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
	constexpr int size = 100;
	char input[size];
	char tmp[size];
	int index = 0;

	gets_s(input, sizeof(input));

	for (int i = 0; i < sizeof(input); i++)
	{
		if (input[i] == ' ')
		{
			if (i != 0 && input[i - 1] != ' ')
				tmp[index++] = input[i];
		}
		else tmp[index++] = input[i];
	}

	printf("\n%s",tmp);
	getchar();
	return 0;
}

And Alcaster's approach...

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#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
	char c;
	bool space;

	while ((c = getchar()) != 10)
	{
		if (c == ' ')
		{
			if(!space)
				printf("%c", c), space = true;
		}
		else printf("%c", c), space = false;
	}
	getchar();
	return 0;
}

Both file sizes are the same (9,216) with VS2017.

[Alacaster]

I fixed it.

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#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
    int bb='\0';
    printf("Have a twitchy thumb? No Problem!\nType:");
    while((bb=getchar()) != 10){

        while(bb==' '){
            bb=getchar();

            if(bb!=' '){
                printf(" %c", bb);
                bb=getchar();
            }
        }
        putchar(bb);
    }
    return 0;
}

[albinopapa]

It appears you have.

Change of subject, I didn't realize C++ code would bloat the size of the executable so much. I can see why C is still used in embedded system.

[Slidy]

I think this would be more interesting as a sort of "code golf" challenge.
Do it in the least amount of characters you can

[albinopapa]

I think this would be more interesting as a sort of "code golf" challenge.
Do it in the least amount of characters you can

Alecaster's code comes in around 246 characters if you remove all tabs and unnecessary spaces, leaving the newline characters.
My C++ code modified to remove the functions ( since you want smaller source code ) comes in around 348 characters and my hybrid C/C++ code comes in at 491 characters.

I used notepad++ to format, removing the spaces and tabs, and get character count.

EDIT: Just wanted to show what I mean;

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#include<cstdio>
#include<cctype>
#define MAX_LENGTH 512
int main(){
char input[MAX_LENGTH]{},output[MAX_LENGTH]{};
size_t out_pos=0;
printf("%s","Enter a string, I'll remove extra spaces. \n");
fgets(input,MAX_LENGTH,stdin);
char c=input[0];
for(size_t i=0;i<MAX_LENGTH&&c!='\0';++i,c=inBuffer[i]){
if(isalpha(c)||ispunct(c)){
output[out_pos]=c;
++out_pos;}
else if(isspace(c)){
if(output[out_pos-1]!=' '){
output[out_pos ]=c;
++out_pos;}}}
printf("%s",output);
return 0;}

This is my hybrid C/C++ code bunched up, looks ugly as hell.