{"id":15208,"date":"2024-03-15T10:44:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T10:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-reverse-the-order-of-words-in-a-c-language-string\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T16:39:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:39:31","slug":"how-to-reverse-the-order-of-words-in-a-c-language-string","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-reverse-the-order-of-words-in-a-c-language-string\/","title":{"rendered":"How to reverse the order of words in a C language strin&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To reverse the order of the words in a C language string, you can follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>invert the order of words<\/li>\n<li>splitting a string into smaller tokens<\/li>\n<li>Calculate the number of words.<\/li>\n<li>Output each word in reverse order using a loop.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Here is an example code:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-meta\">#<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">include<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">&lt;stdio.h&gt;<\/span><\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-meta\">#<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">include<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">&lt;string.h&gt;<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-type\">void<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title function_\">reverse_words<\/span><span class=\"hljs-params\">(<span class=\"hljs-type\">char<\/span> str[])<\/span> {\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-type\">char<\/span> *token;\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-type\">char<\/span> *words[<span class=\"hljs-number\">100<\/span>]; <span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/ \u5047\u8bbe\u6700\u591a\u6709100\u4e2a\u5355\u8bcd<\/span>\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-type\">int<\/span> count = <span class=\"hljs-number\">0<\/span>;\r\n    \r\n    <span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/ \u4f7f\u7528strtok\u51fd\u6570\u5206\u5272\u5b57\u7b26\u4e32\u5e76\u5c06\u6bcf\u4e2a\u5355\u8bcd\u5b58\u50a8\u5728\u6570\u7ec4\u4e2d<\/span>\r\n    token = strtok(str, <span class=\"hljs-string\">\" \"<\/span>);\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">while<\/span> (token != <span class=\"hljs-literal\">NULL<\/span>) {\r\n        words[count] = token;\r\n        count++;\r\n        token = strtok(<span class=\"hljs-literal\">NULL<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-string\">\" \"<\/span>);\r\n    }\r\n    \r\n    <span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/ \u5012\u5e8f\u8f93\u51fa\u6bcf\u4e2a\u5355\u8bcd<\/span>\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> (<span class=\"hljs-type\">int<\/span> i = count - <span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span>; i &gt;= <span class=\"hljs-number\">0<\/span>; i--) {\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">printf<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"%s \"<\/span>, words[i]);\r\n    }\r\n}\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-type\">int<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title function_\">main<\/span><span class=\"hljs-params\">()<\/span> {\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-type\">char<\/span> str[] = <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"Hello World, I am a student.\"<\/span>;\r\n    reverse_words(str);\r\n    \r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">return<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-number\">0<\/span>;\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The output result is:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code>student. a am I World, Hello \r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To reverse the order of the words in a C language string, you can follow these steps: invert the order of words splitting a string into smaller tokens Calculate the number of words. 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