Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpclisp!hpclwjm!walter From: walter@hpclwjm.HP.COM (Walter Murray) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Dumb question: What IS a trigraph? Message-ID: <660056@hpclwjm.HP.COM> Date: 18 Aug 89 16:57:54 GMT References: <3566@uwovax.uwo.ca> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab Lines: 14 Doug Gwyn writes: >In article <3566@uwovax.uwo.ca> 2014_5001@uwovax.uwo.ca writes: >>Every so often someone mentions a trigraph. What is a trigraph??? >There's one (the "???"). Nope. Doug must not have had his dpANS handy. The "???" smells a little like a trigraph, but it isn't one. Of all three-character sequences beginning with "??", only nine are trigraphs, and "???" isn't one of them! Walter Murray ----------