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From: jcbst3@cisunx.UUCP (James C. Benz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: value of TRUE???
Keywords: TRUE, if(), another nonzero value
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Date: 9 Mar 89 21:01:28 GMT
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In article <987@infmx.UUCP> kevinf@infmx.UUCP (Kevin Franden) writes:
>What does if (a=3) evaluate to?

if (a=3) will evaluate to true, since the value of (a=3) is 3, a non-zero value
Now, if you had said, if (a == 3), it is highly dependent on the value of 3.

The values of TRUE and FALSE are 1 and 0, and are defined as constants in
I think, the stdio library.
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