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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "abcdef"[3] == 3["abcdef"], but why?
Message-ID: <19941@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 89 21:53:11 GMT
References: <781@cc.helsinki.fi> <19883@mimsy.UUCP> <519.nlhp3@oracle.nl>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <519.nlhp3@oracle.nl> bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig) writes:
>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'.

Oh my.  How embarrassing.

>I'm sure that Chris nows that C arrays start with index 0, right Chris :-)

He does now :-)
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