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- From: VArase@varase.it.luc.edu (Verne Arase)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Is this a C BUG??? (A string issue)
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 21:18:34 -0600
- Organization: LUMC
- Message-ID: <AD84A72A96681716E4@mcdiala03.it.luc.edu>
- References: <4jknpf$9k3@abel.cc.sunysb.edu> <4jmjgfINN8pr@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
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- In article <4jmjgfINN8pr@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>,
- c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) wrote:
-
- >When in doubt, process individual characters rather than being clever
- with
- >buffers and string manipulation. It can be more efficient and cleaner.
-
- Even better for fixed length records is open/read/write/close. You can even
- use non-delimited records. (Why waste the space of a line delimiter, if
- you're not going to use character formatted data?)
-
- ---
- The above are my own opinions, and not those of my employer.
-