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- From: "Guus Leeuw jr." <guusl@eiffel.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Major problem with strings.
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 08:57:46 -0800
- Organization: Interactive Software Engineering Inc. http://www.eiffel.com/
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- References: <31438275.72DB@aol2.com> <4i0gn0$5g9@sam.inforamp.net> <4i0jvm$18q0@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> <4i2pf9$nfn@sam.inforamp.net>
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- CC: rmorin@inforamp.net
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- Randy Charles Morin wrote:
- >
- > In article <4i0jvm$18q0@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
- > maclenna@ozone.uiowa.edu (Mark MacLennan) wrote:
- > >What nonsense! But then this can be expected from Randy Charles Morin.
- > >The reason the above doesn't work is that the char pointer club
- > >hasn't been allocated sufficient space to store the additional characters -
- > >indeed, it has been assigned to a string constant.
- > >By the way, the slash character "/" is NOT used to denote an escape
- > >sequence - the backslash character "\" serves this purpose.
- > >
- > >You know, Randy, you really should spend more time reading and writing
- > >some code than making these clueless postings. Maybe you can get your
- > >father to help chip in and buy you some C/C++ books.
- >
- > Hmm! Here we go again. You see Mark, I try and reply to as many post as
- > possible, and sometimes my eyes and brain deceive me and turn '/' into '\'.
- > But obviously you couldn't resist and had to make it personal again. I didn't
- > even know who you were until you started this barrage of attacks against me.
- > I make the most mistakes around here, but I also receive 10-20 thank yous
- > every week.
-
- Dear Randy,
-
- What do you think is a better answer? The wrong one or just no answer?
- (Not trying to give you a hard time, just being curious)
-
- Regards,
- Guus
-