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From:	"Keyser Soze" <keysers AT terra DOT com DOT br>
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Subject:	Re: Newbie half off topic: '*' substituted by 'c'
Date:	Wed, 8 Nov 2000 12:38:38 -0200
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And there's no way to make it accept * instead of '*' ?
I compiled it in Turbo C++ and it works with *

Keyser Soze

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De: "DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Para: <keysers AT terra DOT com DOT br>
Cc: <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Enviada em: Terça-feira, 7 de Novembro de 2000 19:21
Assunto: Re: Newbie half off topic: '*' substituted by 'c'


>
> > I made a simple code to examplify, a calculation program, but when
> > you do: "conta 2 * 4" it doesn't do the multiplication, after making
> > a printf call to see what argc[2] contains, it appears 'c'.  Anyone
> > knows what is happening?
>
> The '*' is being treated like a file wildcard.  You need to quote it:
>
> conta 2 '*' 4
> conta 2 "*" 4
> conta 2 \* 4
>
> Try doing "ls -l *" and you'll probably see that the first file listed
> is file "c".
>
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