From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnter_Ladwig?= <gladwig AT iname DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Simple question about strings (and Rhide)
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 19:38:24 +0200
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Hi!

> How do I convert a string such as "blabla.bla" to a char* [] so that
> Allegro's datafile init doesn't complain?

Do you mean something like load_datafile("data.dat")? That should work. If
you want to have a string, do char s[] = "data.dat"; Will only work at
initialization, of course. Any other way you'd have to malloc() the memory
for the
string.

ciao

guenter

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