- The following program demonstrates how 2D-array can be used as a function argument.
- The below program performs basic matrix operations such as matrix addition, multiplication, transpose of a matrix etc.
/* Program to perform operations like addition, multiplicaton, etc. on matrix using function with 2D-array. */
#include "stdio.h"
#include "conio.h"
#define MAX 3 // constant variable declaration
void create ( int [3][3] ) ; // 2D-array as argument
void display ( int [3][3] ) ;
void matadd ( int [3][3], int [3][3], int [3][3] ) ;
void matmul ( int [3][3], int [3][3], int [3][3] ) ;
void transpose ( int [3][3], int [3][3] ) ;
void main( )
{
int mat1[3][3], mat2[3][3], mat3[3][3], mat4[3][3], mat5[3][3] ;
clrscr () ;
printf ( "Enter first Matrix :\n\n" ) ;
create ( mat1 ) ;
printf ( "Enter elements second Matrix:\n\n" ) ;
create ( mat2 ) ;
printf ( "First Matrix:\n" ) ;
display ( mat1 ) ;
printf ( "Second Matrix:\n" ) ;
display ( mat2 ) ;
matadd ( mat1, mat2, mat3 ) ;
printf ( "After Addition:\n" ) ;
display ( mat3 ) ;
matmul ( mat1, mat2, mat4 ) ;
printf ( "After Multiplication:\n" ) ;
display ( mat4 ) ;
transpose ( mat1, mat5 ) ;
printf ( "Transpose of first matrix:\n" ) ;
display ( mat5 ) ;
getch() ;
}
/* creates matrix mat */
void create ( int mat[3][3] )
{
int i, j ;
for ( i = 0 ; i < MAX ; i++ )
{
for ( j = 0 ; j < MAX ; j++ )
{
printf ( "Enter the element: " ) ;
scanf ( "%d", &mat[i][j] ) ;
}
}
printf ( "\n" ) ;
}
/* displays the contents of matrix */
void display ( int mat[3][3] )
{
int i, j ;
for ( i = 0 ; i < MAX ; i++ )
{
for ( j = 0 ; j < MAX ; j++ )
printf ( "%d\t", mat[i][j] ) ;
printf ( "\n" ) ;
}
}
/* adds two matrices m1 and m2 */
void matadd ( int m1[3][3], int m2[3][3], int m3[3][3] )
{
int i, j ;
for ( i = 0 ; i < MAX ; i++ )
{
for ( j = 0 ; j < MAX ; j++ )
m3[i][j] = m1[i][j] + m2[i][j] ;
}
}
/* multiplies two matrices m1 and m2 */
void matmul ( int m1[3][3], int m2[3][3], int m3[3][3] )
{
int i, j, k ;
for ( k = 0 ; k < MAX ; k++ )
{
for ( i = 0 ; i < MAX ; i++ )
{
m3[k][i] = 0 ;
for ( j = 0 ; j < MAX ; j++ )
m3[k][i] += m1[k][j] * m2[j][i] ;
}
}
}
/* obtains transpose of matrix m1 */
void transpose ( int m1[3][3], int m2[3][3] )
{
int i, j ;
for ( i = 0 ; i < MAX ; i++ )
{
for ( j = 0 ; j < MAX ; j++ )
m2[i][j] = m1[j][i] ;
}
}
Note: While passing a two dimension array into the function we have specified set of two square braces at function declaration and function definition.