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From: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "abcdef"[3] == 3["abcdef"], but why?
Message-ID: <519.nlhp3@oracle.nl>
Date: 2 Oct 89 08:58:55 GMT
References: <781@cc.helsinki.fi> <19883@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig)
Organization: ORACLE Europe, The Netherlands
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Article <19883@mimsy.UUCP> by chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) explains
how the compiler could/does handle 3["abcde"].  This was very well done,
except that 3["abcde"] actually evaluates to the char 'd' and not 'c'.

I'm sure that Chris nows that C arrays start with index 0, right Chris :-)
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Bjorn Engsig, bengsig@oracle.nl, bengsig@oracle.com, mcvax!orcenl!bengsig