From: "Andrew Crabtree" <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
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Subject: Re: More easy questions
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:04:36 -0800
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Nils Emil P. Larsen wrote in message
<3 DOT 0 DOT 5 DOT 32 DOT 19980224222117 DOT 0079aa50 AT vip DOT cybercity DOT dk>...
>Thank you for the answers! Here I have some new one:
I think you will find people's patience tiring quickly if you keep asking
beginer C questions to the DJGPP newsgroup.  Go buy an intro to C book and
read it.  Remember, c.o.m.d is for DJGPP specific questions, not C questions
in general, especially not how to write and if statement.  But, since my
patience hasn't expired yet here are your answers...

>- but there is nothing about the keywords like for, then, if, char, int
Of course not.  That is part of the C language proper.

> Where on the Internet can I get info about the keywords?
 http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/open/n2620/

This has a copy of the latest draft standard.  It covers all of the keywords
(including new ones nobodies heard of before).  It might be overkill though,
check comp.lang.c and the C faq, they probably have better pointers to
newbie stuff.

>- Is it correct that the keyword "if" is used like this: if (expression)
>statement1; else statement2;. If expression is nonzero statement1 is
>executed. If expression zero is statement2 executed.
Yes.  You can replace the single statements with blocks of statements
enclosed in '{' also.

>way: if (5 = 5)
You need to use '==' to compare to numbers for equivalence.  The code as you
have it
won't compile since you are trying to assign a value to a constant (non
lvalue).

> How do I convert a ASCII character into a string?
sprintf(mystring,"%c",YOUR_ASCII_CHAR_HERE);

>Thank you very much again - these things would take me hours if you don't
>help me!
It might not be a bad idea to spend a couple of hours learning the basics so
you don't waste bandwidth and other peoples time with questions such as
these.

Andy