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From: gt1619a@prism.gatech.EDU (Net Runner Mark V)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Problems with string handling...
Message-ID: <22209@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 17 Feb 91 20:42:34 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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I have been having a problem in writing a file parser (which reads in a file
which contains a database of information and separates and translates the info
into data files for another suite of programs).

Problem: system crashes when I do this. It gets as far as the string copy,
but falls apart at the string concatenation . I'm using Manx.

The code:
- . -
- . -
char type[2], *seqName, *tblName, *string;
- . -
fscanf(input," %s;",string);
strcpy(seqName,string);
strcat(seqName,".seq");
- . -
- . -


I have also tried:
   seqName = strcat(seqName,".seq");

which also causes the damned thing to crash.


Any ideas?
-Thanx.

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