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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Struggling through the "C"
Summary: get Kochan's book
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Date: 1 Apr 89 02:07:43 GMT
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In article <12000@louie.udel.EDU> (Rob Lizak Jr.) writes:
> FOR I=1 TO LEN(A$)
>   PRINT MID$(A$,I,1);
> NEXT I

C equivalent might be more syntactically written as 
	for (i=0; i < strlen(a); i++) 
		printf("%c", a[i]);
	
Get a copy of the book "Programming in C" by Stephen G. Kochan, ISBN
0-8104-6261-3, it has a good discussion of strings.

>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?

char	*a; /* This is a pointer to a string */
char	a[80]; /* this is a pointer to a string with 80 bytes allocated */

Outside of a function you can declare :
char	*a = "this is a test string."; /* the auto allocates space */
-or-
char	a[80];	/* Global variable */
main()
{
	char	b[80]; /* Local variable */
	/* this copies a string into your string buffer a */
	strcpy(a,"this is a test string");
	strcpy(b,a);	/* Copy string a into string b */
	
}
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