From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Simple program.  Strange results.
Date: 29 Aug 2003 10:14:22 GMT
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Kenton W. Mellott <melken AT co DOT tds DOT net> wrote:

> Perhaps you can help me grasp the trouble I'm having understanding
> and using some previously suggested code.

Some of us could, but I think you really should find a better place
for this kind of questions.  There's a special newsgroup for beginners
learning C or C++ programming in the 'alt' hierarchy:
alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++, which is much better suited to this kind of
question.

Or just get yourself a good textbook and learn it.

>      if ((nl = strchr(buf, '\n')))
> ->         *nl = 0;

> I read this as: if strchr makes nl anything but zero then make it
> equal to zero.

No.  Note how one assignment is made to 'n', the other to '*n'?  That
discinction is _important_.

> Why?  What other folloing statement uses it?
> Also, why us a pointer to  nl  used, instead of plain  nl.

It's not a 'pointer to nl'.  'nl' is a 'pointer to something'.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.