Hello david!

13 Oct 93 03:37, david nugent wrote to David Woodruff:


 DW>> How would I read a line in from a stream and then advance
 DW>> to the next line in the file. I would like something that
 DW>> results in something similar to the pascal READLN statement
 DW>> as opposed to the pascal READ statement.

 dn> Check out fopen()/fgets()/fclose() in your library reference manaul.

 DW>> Also, how do I get a function to return a string?

 dn> C doesn't really have "strings" as such - not in the same
sense as TP. You
 dn> can return a pointer to an array which contains a 'string', or you can
 dn> strcpy() a string generated or used withing a function to a buffer whose
 dn> address is passed to it by the caller.

Thanks a lot david. This whole pointer thing is driving me really crazy!

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