On 12 Jan 96 09:51, Paul Edwards wrote to Kieran Haughey:

Hi Paul,

KH>> I wasn't asking how to do it, I was asking WHY *(argv++) would
skip to the 
KH>> next argv array member .. in 
KH>> which most of the arguments were switches like /w or /wc etc.. if I did a 
KH>> plain argv++ without the *() it would got from '/' to 'w' when I want it 
KH>> to 

PE> No, that's what argv++ did when you were pissed and had declared it
PE> as char *argv.  When you sobered up you changed it to char **argv,
PE> and then it would have started working, except you decided to try
PE> *(argv++) instead of just argv++.  Is it all coming back to you
PE> now?  BFN.  Paul.

I know this will make me look even worse.. but I don't drink 
:).. I actually copied the char **argv from the getopts function you
wrote.. then just followed it through to see how to work with it like that
:)..

The *(argv++) what what I thought logically would work.. :).. it was all a
matter of the IDE debugger only showing one character when using argv++
compared to it showing the entire member for *(argv++) :).. when they both
jump to the next member.. :)
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Cheers,
Kieran

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