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From: LIZAK98%SNYBUFVA.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (A SHOW OF HANDS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Struggling through the "C"
Message-ID: <12000@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 31 Mar 89 19:55:49 GMT
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This one is probably old hat for any of you C programmers out there,
but I am having a hell of a time writing this little routine.  Awhile
back I wrote a BBS program that is a C-Net look alike, however, because
the only language that I knew that I had on my Amiga was BASIC, I had to
use that.  The thing runs toooo slow for any real application other than
saying, oh it looks nice... too bad it doesnt keep up with 2400 baud...
Anyways, the output routine was written something like this (it's more
complex as it checks for control characters, etc before printing, but this
is the major part):

FOR I=1 TO LEN(A$)
  PRINT MID$(A$,I,1);
NEXT I

I posted this to a BBS and asked for a C equivlent, however, what I got was
a fragment of what I really needed... here is what was posted for me...

for(i=0;a[i]=!'\0';i++)
  printf("%c",a[i]);

no matter what I put for the declaration... it wouldnt work!  I added this
to the program to try to make it work... whats wrong with this?

main()
{
 char *a;
 int i;
 a="This is a test string...";

  ...above code....
}

   How must I declare a?  How must I define the string?

Thanks,


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