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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 01:50:41 -0500
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, buzdor AT email DOT com
From: "Thomas J. Hruska" <shinelight AT detroit DOT crosswinds DOT net>
Subject: Passing/updating pointers...
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

I have never quite figured out how to pass a pointer to a function and have
the function update the variable sent to it.  So, for many years I have
just found ways to work around this little glitch in my memory.  Now, I
have come to a point in a program that I'm writing where I can't work
around the problem anymore.

Here is what I want to do:

// Read a line of text from buffer in memory and return string
char *LineInput(char *src)
{
  char *dest, src2;

  src2 = src;
...
  [update input pointer (src) with src2]
  return dest;
}

So, how would I go about doing this?  That is, how would I call the
function and how would I perform the update?


        Thomas J. Hruska -- shinelight AT detroit DOT crosswinds DOT net
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