From: paul DOT r DOT johnson AT gecm DOT com
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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 08:34:41 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: Newbie: help it won't work!!!!
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Sune Nielsen (sunegn AT image DOT dk) wrote:
[...]
> When I declare an array eg,

> 	int array[3];

> should I index it from 0 through 2 or should it be from 1 through 3,
> or could it even be from 0 through 3!?

0 through 2 (both ends inclusive). Which means there are 3 elements in
the array, altogether, thus the [3] in its declaration.

> I know this is really basic C-stuff, but the Kris Jamsa book I use
> apparently doesn't clearify this thoroughly (I'm confused anyway,
'cos
> I though I understood it)...

>The message of this is clear then: that book obviously is of no real
>use. You may have to consider dumping it and getting a better one. 
>If
>the author of a book on C doesn't manage to get even this extremely
>basic and crucial fact across, chances are you'll never learn C from
>it, properly.
-- 
>Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
>Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

--
I'm new to C myself and have found the C tutorial by Gordon Dodrill,
(you can find it at http://www.swcp.com/~dodrill/) very good. Hope
this helps.
Paul