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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: confusion with char *a and char a[NUM]
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Date: 3 Dec 90 20:25:20 GMT
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In article <7656@umd5.umd.edu> jjk@astro.umd.edu( Jim Klavetter) writes:
>However, if I have
>	a=strchr(string, ":");
>I get the error message
>	121: incompatible types in assignment
>or some such thing (that one is from gcc).

Doug Gwyn already answered most of your questions, but he missed on problem
with the above expression.  The second argument to strchr() is supposed to
be an int (according to the SunOS manual, but maybe ANSI says "char"), not
a char*.  Therefore, it should be

	a = strchr (string, ':');
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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