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  2. From: wilson%inf.UFRGS.BR@UICVM.UIC.EDU (Wilson Roberto Afonso)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: Problem with string processing.
  5. Date: 7 Jan 1993 13:05:58 -0600
  6. Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
  7. Lines: 32
  8. Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
  9. Message-ID: <9301071842.AA11818@urutu.inf.ufrgs.br>
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  13. >>Assuming a large enough string for the append, and low-high byte ordering,
  14. >>would this work?
  15. >>
  16. >>strcat(str,(char *)&ch);
  17. >>
  18. >
  19. >Well, it would work *sometimes*.  Remember that strcat() expects two pointers
  20. >to ZERO-TERMINATED strings. [...]
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  22. I think that the point here is "low-high byte ordering".  If we have eight-bit-
  23. -chars, AND low-high ordering, wouldn't surely be a zero after the char ?
  24. I think that I am probably wrong, but that's what I thought he was talking
  25. about.
  26.  
  27. -Wilson  (wilson@inf.ufrgs.br)
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  35.  |                        Albert Einstein        |                        | |
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