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From: pclark@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Peter Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: typedef-ing an array
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Date: 28 Jun 90 23:41:11 GMT
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In-reply-to: pclark@SRC.Honeywell.COM's message of 28 Jun 90 22:36:11 GMT

I wrote:

>Is there anyway to typedef an array (of a specific length)? Obviously, the
>above declaration doesn't do it, or I wouldn't be asking. If the typedef
>mechanism isn't sufficient (I don't think it is), how can this be done?

which wasn't specific enough. What I meant was, why doesn't this work:

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#include <stdio.h>

typedef char foo[29];

/* a string with 28 chars, add one for the NULL byte */
foo bar = "Hello World, this is my test";

void
  main()
{
  bar = "Silly old me";
  printf("%s\n",bar);
}
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The initializer works fine, but the assignment inside main() doesn't.

	Pete Clark