Question

I am writing a code to reverse a string in place:

void ReverseInPlace(char * x)
{
    char * end = x;
    int i;
    i = 0;
    char temp;
    while(*end)
    {
        ++end;//point tol end 
        ++i;//count the lenght
    }
    --end;
    printf("%s",end);

    printf("%d",i);
    while(i)
    {
        temp = *end;
        printf("%s","\n");
        printf("%c",temp);

        end--;
        x++;
        i--;
    }
    printf("%s","\n");//blank line
    printf("%s","\n");//blank line
    printf("%s","-----");//blank line
    printf("%s",x);//print original 
}

Here are my confusions:
Even though I am able to print the characters in reverse, I want to reverse the string without using an array

I get error when I try to do the following:

*x = temp;

Answer 1

My proposal

#include <stdio.h> // printf
#include <string.h> // strlen

void swap(char* a , char* b)
{
    char tmp;
    tmp=*a;
    (*a) = (*b);
    (*b) = tmp;
}

void ReverseInPlace(char * x)
{
    char * end = x;
    int i,j,length;
    char temp;

    length = strlen(x);

    //swap 1st with last, then 2nd with last-1, etc.  Till we reach the middle of the string.
    for(i=0,j=length-1 ; i<j ; ++i,--j)
        swap( &x[i] , &x[j]);
}

main (){
    char str[] = "123456789";
    ReverseInPlace(str);
    //ReverseInPlace("1234"); // this would lead to error, because "1234", can not be modified
    printf("%s\n",str);
}

After middle is reached, you would swap elements which were already swapped by previous iterations. For illustration:

char* x = "1234";
1 2 3 4
4 2 3 1
4 3 2 1 // already reversed!
4 2 3 1
1 2 3 4 // if we continue till i==length-1 && j=0 , then we just get where we started