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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Some interesting novice questions from a novice guy
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Date: 31 Oct 90 05:27:14 GMT
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In article <2620@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>maybe I'm the only one here who gets confused by autoincrement-right-after-
>dereferencing [as in "*s++"]

"*s++" as an rvalue is just the string equivalent of "getc()".

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.isc.com or uunet!ima!karl), The Walking Lint