Hello Peter.
06 Feb 98 03:19, Peter Haywood wrote to Roger Scudder:
EL>> strcat(stringvar, &charvar);
RS>> Very nice solution! I can't understand why I never see
RS>> anyone using it.
PH> I'll tell you why: because it's garbage. This will try to copy
PH> characters until null ('\0') is found. But since charvar is only a
Boy, and I thought this one was dead and buried. It's really
about like when you're first starting out programming and you
think that a return code of 0 means the program is finished and
will work perfectly now. Not long after that you're learning
how to read a dump. Well, I relapsed all the way back to day one
when I wrote that.
Bob Stout has an interesting alternative in Snippets, but I plan
to stick copying to the specific element one character at a time.
-Roger
... I am Shaggy of Borg. You shall be groovy.
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