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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
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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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
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