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From: gnat@blake.acs.washington.edu (Laura Frazier)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions
Subject: \0 as input
Keywords: \0, input, getchar()\
Message-ID: <5412@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 90 17:33:14 GMT
Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle
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Greetings!

I am fairly new to C and my Unix is rusty at best.  So, this may seem a 
silly question to some...

I have written a program to read two strings with getchar() from an ascii
file.  The problem is that I can't use whitespace to delimit the strings, 
but can't figure out a way to say, "OK, here's a \0, now read the 2nd string."

Is there any way to write the null character into my input strings?

Or can I just input two ascii files, one for each string?  If so, how to
do that on Unix?

Thanks for your help!


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