If you can figure out why fails on three letters instead of 12, you'll be more than half way to solving the problem.

如果你能明白为什么程序,在输入三个字母的单词的时候没法运行,你就已经解决了问题的一半了。

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Its name is malloc for memory allocation and what malloc does for us is we say, hmm, the user has typed in a three-letter word.

它为我们分配内存地址,它为用户输入的3个字母单词,分配地址。

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So if your word game doesn't work when the words are 12 letters long, instead of continuing to debug 12 letter hands see if you can make it fail on a three letter hand.

因此如果你的单词游戏当输入单词,有12个字母的时候没法运行了，看看输入三个字母的单词它,能不能正常运行吧。

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So it does that for us so that you can get away with just knowing the address of the first byte and it will make sure that you know when to stop by including the special value so, in fact, get the string if you type in a three-letter word, we allocate four bytes no matter what because we need an additional byte 0 for this special sentinel value back slash zero at the very end.

它为我们做了这些事情，这样我们就可以,通过第一个字节的地址,它还可以通过包含一个特殊的值,来保证在哪里停止，如果你输入了一个三个字母的单词,就可以获得那个字符串，不管怎样，我们分配四个字节,因为我们在末端需要一个额外的字节,来保存这个特殊的标志值--反斜杠。

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Well, get string again is returning the address of the string the user typed in, D the address of the very first character like the letter D and storing that address in this variable s1.

好的，GetString返回的是,用户输入的字符串的地址，第一个字符的地址，比如字母,然后把这个地址存储在这个变量s1中。

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s2 So, I'm passing in the first character in s2, I'm making it uppercase and then I'm putting it back so casually speaking this is just capitalizing the first letter of whatever word the user typed in to s2.

那么，我把第一个字符传递给，我把它转换成大写的，然后存下来,简单说，这就是把用户输入s2中的单词,的第一个字母转换成大写的。

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Someone-- or someone had to implement, had to write a tool called printf that itself takes input between quotes and produces as output some characters on the screen.

需要有人去实现，这个printf函数,以双引号间的信息为输入,输出相应字母到屏幕上。

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