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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: initializing an array
Keywords: multi-dimension, no size specified.
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Date: 11 May 89 03:28:21 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <609@greens.UUCP> matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun Visualization Products) writes:
: |     int a[][] = {
: |             { 1, 2, 3 },
: |             { 4, 5, 6 },
: |             { 7, 8, 9 },  <------ remove this excess ','
: |     };
: |
: | It is possible to determine from the syntax how many elements there
: | are in each dimension, but my compiler complains about a null
: | dimension.
:
: Of course it going to complain about a null dimension.  You've got an extra ','
: in the initializer declaration.

Wrong. A trailing comma in an initializer is perfectly legal. The
problem with his code is that, while what he wants is possible, it is
not part of the language.

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