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From: ccdn@levels.sait.edu.au (DAVID NEWALL)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: "do ... while ((NULL + 1) - 1);" -- valid C?
Message-ID: <1043@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: 7 Aug 89 14:20:31 GMT
Organization: Sth Australian Inst of Technology
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I want to scan a string with fields separated by commas.  To do this, I
wrote the following:
                do
                   ...
                while ((s = strchr(s, ',') + 1) - 1);

I've been told that this is not valid C because, in the case that there
are no more fields (commas), strchr() returns NULL; and NULL + 1 is not
valid.

Comments, anyone?


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