yea, its surprising

The triple chevron represents a Here String, which feeds the string on the right to the operation on the left(input redirection)

If you add or subtract zero, the result will not change, but there will be no unnecessary operation.

I also summed it up with zero.

happens to the best of us

I did :)

i do play old school runescape if thats what you mean. @stojak139808. i do think it matters for people that dont understand and if your bad at simple programs you'll suck at writing big programs

you have a point, but it really doesn't matter for simple problems like these

bc stands for basic calculator

asprintf() is a Linux function, not in standard C or POSIX. you must either declare it manually, or #define _GNU_SOURCE before you #include <stdio.h>

Would you mind to elaborate? It's almost the same solution in C.

You don't need strlen! Now you iterate twice over the string!

You don't need strlen!