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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: net.news.b,net.news.adm,net.bugs
Subject: Re: postnews() bug (2.10.3), with fix
Message-ID: <6195@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Aug-86 11:37:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: elsie.6195
Posted: Fri Aug 22 11:37:04 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 22-Aug-86 21:52:12 EDT
References: <483@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
Lines: 13
Keywords: moderated groups, bugs
Summary: defensive programming
Xref: mnetor net.news.b:368 net.news.adm:652 net.bugs:332

> 		for (p=src; !isspace(*p)/*isalnum(*p) || ispunct(*p)*/; p++)
>			;

Since isspace('\0') is false (at least on our 4.1BSD system), our department
of defensive programming recommends that the above test take the form

> 		for (p=src; *p != '\0' && !isspace(*p); p++)
>			;
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