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From: marwk@levels.sait.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: escape sequences
Message-ID: <15854.27a36867@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: 27 Jan 91 23:55:19 GMT
References: <1991Jan26.080726.21670@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Organization: Sth Australian Inst of Technology
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In article <1991Jan26.080726.21670@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, fjs@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Fernando J. Selman) writes:
> Is there a way to conver the string (e.g.) "\a" to
> the constant '\a' at run time, without writing my
> own lookup table? Thank you,
>                               - Fernando

I hope this is what your question requires as an answer.  It seems a bit
simple to solve, so maybe I don't understand what you mean.

char s = "\a";  /* a single character string */
char c;         /* a character storage var   */

c = *s;         /* convert the string character to a single character */

Ray

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