On 15 Jan 96 22:40, Paul Edwards wrote to Kieran Haughey:

Hi Paul,

KH>>>> I was accessing varibles of the seperate argv's by using
*(*argv).. and 
KH>>>> found that if I did a plain argv++ it would only goto
the next character 
KH>>>> in argv, not the next array element...

KH>>  My Sincerest apologies.. I originally thought that
argv++ didn't 

PE> :-)  The only way it could be otherwise is if there was a compiler
PE> bug, that generated different code for argv++ compared to *(argv++).

PE> The *() in *(argv++) is as useless as the "3" in the following
PE> program:

PE> #include 

PE> int main(void)
PE> {
PE>   printf("hello\n");
PE>   3;
PE>   printf("there\n");
PE>   return (0);
PE> }

I know :).. it took me a while to realise that by using *(argv++) I was
dereferencing argv and then incrementing it after I used it, but
considering that nothing used it, it just went on to argv++ :)
ÿ
Cheers,
Kieran

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