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From: robert@nereid.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert Angelino)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: casting ints and floats to char*
Message-ID: <6185@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: 25 Apr 91 00:10:47 GMT
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Reply-To: robert@triton.JPL.NASA.GOV
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Hello C people,
	I'm trying to have a char* array point to different types, i.e
hold addresses of ints,floats, and longs.

I want to be able to do the following:

void has_to_be_done_this_way()
{
char *ptr[12];
int  i;
long j;
double p;

ptr[0] = &i;
ptr[1] = &j;
ptr[2] = &p;

sscanf(buf,"%2d %5ld %15lf",&(*ptr[0]),&(*ptr[1]),&(*ptr[2]));
}

I hope I'm conveying myself clearly--that's what I'm trying to do.

Does anyone have any suggestions??

thanks in advance

p.s. Please e-mail me directly.

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