Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!gwyn@BRL.ARPA From: gwyn@BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Function argument question Message-ID: <545@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 18:34:19 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.545 Posted: Thu Aug 8 18:34:19 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 05:43:14 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 8 > ... a function which takes a character pointer as an input, processes > the string, returns and integer AND! updates the string pointer in > the process. Obviously this cannot be done precisely as stated. You will have to pass a POINTER to a character pointer, if you want to modify the character pointer. E.g. int function( char **strp );