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From: lion@dat1hb.north.de (Daniel Tietze)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Non-Portable pointer assignment?
Message-ID: <JXey32w164w@dat1hb.north.de>
Date: 3 Jun 91 11:06:30 GMT
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roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:

> foo(char *p) {
>     char *q;
> 
>     q = strchr(p,'x');  /* this line gets complaints */
> }
> 
Try q=strchr(p,"x"); , this should work. If I'm not mistaken, TC uses
'x' to denote a string and "x" to denote a char. At least, it always
works this way when I get that error message (and, being something of a
C novice, I get it rather more often than the average C programmer).
    Daniel


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