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From: jesup@steinmetz.UUCP
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Subject: Re: String Processing Instruction
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Date: Tue, 31-Mar-87 17:49:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 31 17:49:00 1987
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Reply-To: jesup@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
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In article <15829@sun.uucp> guy@sun.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>
>I'd be interested to know how much string processing is, in fact,
>done by *ad hoc* code because it didn't quite match the string
>routines available on the system?  "strtok" and company weren't in
>V7, so people would usually have done their own string-chopping.

	For the shell I wrote for the Amiga (and for other programs as
well), I have often used a set of string routines I wrote that always
returns a pointer to the END of the string, not the beginning.  This way
I rarely, if ever, have to call strcat.  I usually know what the beginning
of the string is (except for things like strcpy(malloc(SIZE),string)).

	Randell Jesup
	jesup@steinmetz.uucp
	jesup@ge-crd.arpa