ziglings/exercises/008_quiz.zig

//
// Quiz time! Let's see if you can fix this whole program.
//
// You'll have to think about this one a bit.
//
// Let the compiler tell you what's wrong.
//
// Start at the top.
//
const std = @import("std");

pub fn main() void{
  // What is this nonsense? :-)
  const letters = "YZhifg";
  
  // Note: usize is an unsigned integer type used for...sizes.
  // The exact size of usize depends on the target CPU
  // architecture. We could have used a u8 here, but usize is
  // the idiomatic type to use for array indexing.
  //
  // There IS a problem on this line, but 'usize' isn't it.
  var x: usize = 1;
  
  // Note: When you want to declare memory (an array in this
  // case) without putting anything in it, you can set it to
  // 'undefined'. There is no problem on this line.
  var lang: [3]u8 = undefined;
  
  // The following lines attempt to put 'Z', 'i', and 'g' into the
  // 'lang' array we just created by indexing the array
  // 'letters' with the variable 'x'. As you can see above, x=1
  // to begin with.
  lang[0] = letters[x];
  
  x = 3;
  lang[1] = letters[x];
  
  x = 5;
  lang[2] = letters[x];
  
  // We want to "Program in Zig!" of course:
  std.debug.print("Program in {s}!\n", .{lang});
}