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- From: gumboot@airdmhor.gen.nz (Simon Hosie)
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- Subject: Re: a dump question from a novice C programmer
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 04:02:54 +1300
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- Jason Li:
- > I have just started programming in C, still feel dizzy sometimes when
- > looking at cryptic C code. Occasionally I come across code like this:
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- > for (iv=0; iv < specp->nlvars; iv++)
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- > what does this symbol "->" mean? I've looked all over my C books, could
- > not find anything on it.
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- Does reading it as "for (iv=0; iv < (*specp).nlvars; iv++)" help?
-