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From: gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: subscripting constant arrays
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Date: Wed, 11-Jan-84 22:36:23 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 11 22:36:23 1984
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Recently I came across the following code fragment:

	char *cp, ch[10];
	unsigned u;
	.
	.
	for (cp = ch; u != 0; u >>=4) {
		*cp++ = "0123456789ABCDEF"[u & 0xF];
	}

Shocking isn't it?  But the subscripting of the constant array is
legal K&R syntax (see sec 7.1), so this does work on all valid compilers.

As a stylistic note, I would suggest putting the string in parentheses
to emphasize its use as an expression:

		*cp++ = ("0123456789ABCDEF")[u & 0xF];

This made it clearer to me, anyway (former APL hacker...).