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From: mplevine@sbc2.sgi.com (Marshall Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C scanf question
Summary: Correction to this guy's C syntax
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Date: 19 Jul 89 22:45:31 GMT
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In article <20578@cup.portal.com>, morris-ng@cup.portal.com (Yuklung Morris Ng) writes:
> string to the file and you write "fprintf(file,"%s",line[80]);" what you are
> ... should be "fprintf(file,"%s",&line);"...

Actually, I believe it should be:

fprintf(file,"%s",line);     or, if you want to be verbose:
fprintf(file,"%s",&line[0]);

You are going to print characters until you hit a '\0', but you are starting
at the memory location of the pointer to the string, rather than the string
itself.  No big deal, just one more core dump (or system crash)...


-- Marshall Levine

mplevine@sgi.com
mplevine@phoenix.princeton.edu

Advanced Systems Design, Silicon Graphics Inc.
Department of Computer Science, Princeton University

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-- Marshall Levine

mplevine@sgi.com
mplevine@phoenix.princeton.edu

Advanced Systems Design, Silicon Graphics Inc.
Department of Computer Science, Princeton University