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From: john@its.bt.co.uk (John Trickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Laser C function call help needed!  (slightly long)
Keywords: Laser C, help!
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Date: 19 Jul 90 12:26:44 GMT
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In article <1213@unicorn.WWU.EDU> n8742883@unicorn.WWU.EDU (Perry Pederson) writes:
>
>int getline(char s[], int lim)
>{

Your array of char will have been pre-defined in some other part of the
code by:-  char string[strint_length]; so at this point you will be
responding to a fn call of getline(string, string_limit);
This means you need a "pointer to a char" and not an array in the fn
definition which should be:-

	int getline(s,lim)
	char *s;
	int lim
	{

These are interchangeable at reference time but not at definition time
so the remainder of your code can remain the same ... except

>getline(s, lim)
>char s[], int lim;
>{

This would not work as described before but in terms of C programming
is a simple error.  char a, b, c; is a single statement.  If you
tried char a, int, b; it would try to create a char variable called int
if it did not get confused.  To achieve your end you need two statements
as in char s[]; int lim;

I hope this has helped you to understand why your compiler complained.

John

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