An Interview Question

Filed under: C++ — jac @ February 10, 2005 - 2:54 pm

Here’s some code stolen from The Daily WTF:

ushort GetAsciiValue (uchar ch)
{
    ushort i;
    for (i=0; i<=255; i++)
    {
        if(ch == i)
            return i;
    }
    return 0;
}

It might be interesting to show this code to a candidate for a C/C++ position. Ask him/her if there is anything wrong with this code, and if so, how he/she would implement GetAsciiValue.




  



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