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From: rkl@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (kevin.laux)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Very elementary question concerning indirection
Keywords: elementary question, indirection
Message-ID: <8222@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 90 16:54:26 GMT
References: <7998@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Lines: 21

In article <7998@hubcap.clemson.edu>, kaires@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert G Kaires) writes:
| 
| main()
| {
|    char *pointer;
|    char string[300];
|       gets(string);
|       printf( "%c\n",*(strchr(string,40)) );   <---- line in question
|       pointer = strchr(string,40);
|       printf("%c\n",*pointer);
| }
| 
| "partest.c", line 6: illegal indirection
| "partest.c", line 7: warning: illegal combination of pointer and
| integer, op =
| 

	Did you include the header file <string.h|?  If not, then strchr()
defaults to a function that returns an int, not a character pointer.

--rkl