Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!sdrc!scjones
From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Use of RMS from VAX C
Message-ID: <218@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 88 12:42:36 GMT
References: <8802150715.AA23998@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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In article <8802150715.AA23998@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, XPMAINT@TAMVENUS.BITNET (Shane Davis -- CSC XPrint Programmer) writes:
> Hello again...
> 
> I'm trying to use the RMS services $PARSE and $SEARCH to process wildcard file
> specifications. However, the VAX C compiler (V2.3) flags an error "Invalid
> right operand of an &= operator" at this statement:
> 
> file_fab.fab$l_nam=&file_nam;

Easy.  The compiler is misinterpreting your statement as using the old-
fashioned combined assignment operator =&.  Just put spaces around the =
and all will be well.

Just one more example of why you should *always* leave space around binary
operators.
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