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From: rotberg@dms.UUCP (Ed Rotberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Quick ThinkC String question...
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Date: 14 Feb 90 17:17:47 GMT
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From article <77108@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, by waylonis@banana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mr Waylonis):
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a problem getting ThinkC to accept the following:
> 
> procedureX()
> {
> 	Str255	myString;
> 
> 	myString = "\pExample string";
> }
> 
> Any suggestions?

Offhand, I can't say whether the above syntax is legal or not as I'm more of a
"working man's" C programmer, and not a theoretician.  However, as the compiler
dosn't like it, you need to write a small routine like:

void pStrcpy(dst,src)	/* I myself like (src,dst) but it's just not C!! */
Str255 *dst,*src;
{
	int i;

	for(i = (unsigned char)(*src); i >=0; --i) /* cast whenever in doubt */
		*dst++ = *src++;
}

Then
	myString = "\pExample string";
becomes
	pStrcpy(myString,"\pExample string");

Not precisely elegant, but it'll work.

	- Ed Rotberg -