I am trying to create a recursive function with the output:
Once upon a time, there was a child who couldnt sleep, so the child's mother told her a story about a mouse who couldnt sleep, so the mouse's mother told her a story about a turtle who couldnt sleep, so the turtle's mother told her a story about a frog who couldnt sleep, so the frog's mother told her a story about a bear who went to sleep.
Then the frog went to sleep. Then the turtle went to sleep. Then the mouse went to sleep. Then the child went to sleep.
I have the first paragraph done but when I tried to re loop back around and print out the next paragraph it turns into an infinite loop. Do I need another recursive function to complete this? Any help would be appreciated.
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> void story(char **string1, int n) { if ( n > 0 ) { printf("a %s who couldn't sleep,\n", *(string1 + n)); printf("so the %s's mother told her a story about\n", *(string1 + n)); story(string1, n - 1); } else { printf("a %s who went to sleep.", *string1); if ( n < 4) { story(string1, n + 1); printf("Then the %s went to sleep.", *(string1 + n)); } } } int main() { char* animals[] = {"bear", "frog", "turtle", "mouse", "child"}; int start = 4; printf("Once upon a time, there was "); story(animals, start); printf("%s", *animals); return 0; } 
