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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Using strings as immediate character arrays
Message-ID: <5967@alice.uUCp>
Date: Wed, 20-Aug-86 10:15:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 20 10:15:22 1986
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> In a program I have been writing, I have found it nice to
> have immediate character arrays, so I could do things like
>
>	cmdchr = "rofq"[menu_selection] ;
>
> Is this legal and portable?  It seems to work.      -tom

Yes.