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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!cybrspc!roy
  2. From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: Problem with string processing.
  5. Message-ID: <wVRXwB3w165w@cybrspc.uucp>
  6. Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 21:36:43 CST
  7. References: <1993Jan5.161120.1423@leland.Stanford.EDU>
  8. Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
  9. Lines: 27
  10.  
  11. dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:
  12.  
  13. > >Roy M. Silvernail (roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu) writes:
  14. > >
  15. > >| Assuming a large enough string for the append, and low-high byte ordering,
  16. > >| would this work?
  17. > >|
  18. > >| strcat(str,(char *)&ch);
  19. > 
  20. > I think Roy was being cute here.
  21.  
  22. <blush>
  23.  
  24. > So Roy's trick, if I am understanding him correctly, will work
  25. > fine on a system where a number of assumptions are correct. I'll
  26. > let Roy defend the usage of his trick from those who would 
  27. > argue it is not good style.
  28.  
  29. Defend it?  Dave, I didn't even know if it would work... :)
  30.  
  31. Thanks for a very thorough explanation (which I deleted to save a few
  32. bytes).  I don't think I'll be using this one too often.
  33. --
  34.     Roy M. Silvernail   | #include <stdio.h>                 | "press to test"
  35.  roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu | main(){                            |     <click>
  36.  cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu |  float x=1;                        | "release
  37.                         |  printf("Just my $%.2f.\n",x/50);} |    to detonate"
  38.