Hi again Wade::
  Wade Carpenter,
  In a message on 24 July, you wrote to me :
WC> 
WC> Yep.. It worked like a charm!!! Thanks so much for the help, 
WC> because I never
WC> would have thought of that!!  So, would it generally be better then, to 
WC> use 'char any[50]' instead of using 'char *any'?  
The -- char *any -- has the advantage in that you could change the amount of
memory allocated to it by calling -- realloc() -- or you could return the
memory occupied by it back to the system with -- free() --
But if you have an object that's gonna occupy more or less same a fixed
amount of memory then using the -- char any[50] -- is better. Then you
don't have to call any -- malloc() -- or -- realloc() s--
TIP::
Also, when you want to pass 'any' as an argument to a function say
foo(char *gimmeAny) then you could use foo(any) where any is either a
char * or char any[].
So you see, there's no *general* way of doing things in C.
WC> Before now, I never knew
WC> any reason to specify the length, other than writing to files...  
Well, good things come to those who wait.
For C/C++ beginners learning how pointers work is the biggest challenge.
Keep it up
Bye
Rajesh
 
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