#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include "clog.h"


bool count_consecutive_chars(char ch, char** a_pos, int* a_num_occurrences) {
    if(**a_pos != ch) {
        *a_num_occurrences = 0;
        return false;  // found no characters
    }
    while(**a_pos == ch) {
        *a_num_occurrences += 1;  // BUG:  Forgot to initialize *a_num_occurrences to 0.
        *a_pos += 1;
    }
    return true;
}
// AUTOCOMPLETE: Ctrl-P

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    int num_occurrences;
    char* input = "aaabbcccc"; // address of the first character of this string (on the data segment)
    char* pos = input;         // address of the character to look at next

    bool found_any = count_consecutive_chars('a', &pos, &num_occurrences);
    log_bool(found_any);
    log_int(num_occurrences);

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
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