Hi Tom,
BW>>     cout << "The value of /a is " << (char)'/a' << endl;
BW>> Borland will send a backslash.  Microsoft, the letter a.
> That is strange, there is no backslash involved, I only see forward 
lashes.
> By the way, I believe a char literal should only be 1 character long 
unless
> you're trying to use the escape code for alert, which is '\a').
I don't think this is strange.
Internally chars are treated as ints... 2 bytes are allocated for that.
        the ASCII-Code for '/' is 47 and for 'a' it is 97
It seems that Microsoft doesn't really convert the expression '/a' to int  
but simply performs a copy. Normally ints are stored with LOW-BYTE first,  
then HIGH-BYTE ---> correctly it should be stored as 97 47 = 97*256 + 47 =  
24879 (the way Borland does) ! Microsoft stores it as 47 97 = 47*256 + 97  
= 12129.
bye
Frank
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