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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: string assignment in C
Message-ID: <1885@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 14 Oct 88 15:01:07 GMT
References: <1988Oct11.143728.28627@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <6777@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: SCADA
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In article <6777@chinet.chi.il.us>, john@chinet.chi.il.us (John Mundt) writes:
> Now, this would be different:

> char p[] = { 't','h','i','s',' ','a',' ','s','t','r','i','n','g','\n' };

> main()
> {
> 	printf(p);
> }

Different all right. You forgot to terminate your string. Your milage
will vary, but I got:

% a.out | vcat
this a string
l&^Z'.^R% []

[] is the cursor.
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