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JB>>> for (n=0; target[n] != '\0' ; n++) { 

DM>> I prefer this one. ;-) 

PS> I would write this one as (minor difference only): 

PS> for (n = 0; target[n] != 0; n++) { ... } 

JB>>> and possibly even better re-written to use a char*
JB>>> instead for( s=target ; *s ; s++ ) { 

DM>> Yes, I like this even more ;-) 

PS> I think that's obfuscated enough to require several seconds
PS> of thought when looking at it some time after writing it. ;) 

PS> However, I never needed to traverse a string this way in
PS> all the C programs I have written so far. 

I know that I _have_ used the above method (str pointer). It
_does_ seem to be more K&R than how C is thought of today but I
liked it at the time. :-) 

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