Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!columbia!cubmol!ping From: ping@cubmol.BIO.COLUMBIA.EDU (Shiping Zhang) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: passing *char parameters by reference Message-ID: <318@cubmol.BIO.COLUMBIA.EDU> Date: 13 Aug 89 21:55:32 GMT References: <1424@novavax.UUCP> <660050@hpclwjm.HP.COM> <14280@haddock.ima.isc.com> <24555@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Reply-To: ping@cubmol.UUCP (Shiping Zhang) Organization: Dept. of Biology, Columbia Univ., New York, NY Lines: 13 In article <24555@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes: >A minor comment... > >Among all the responses to this swap question, I think I saw _one_ >that suggested getting rid of the ampersands and passing in the array >pointers (instead of the addresses of the array pointers). All the >I missing something? Getting rid of the ampersands would not work as intended. Only the first characters would be exchanged between the two strings. -ping