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S.V.BADARI NARAYANA MURTHY wrote in message <31992@palm-dev-forum>...
hai all
I want to store "?" into a Char*. if i give like this
Char* temp;
temp="?";
it will store "\?". why its adding \ before ?. how to store only "?".
if
any one have idea regarding this, please help me.
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Now aside from what Morgan wrote about what the backslash
really means, you have other problems.
First off, "Char *temp;" is declaring a variable which will be a
-pointer- to some memory into which you in intend to store
Chars ... but you never gave it any memory to point -to-. Look
at MemHandleNew() and MemPtrNew(). Don't forget the matching
deletes once you're done w/ the memory !
Second, once you have allocated memory for storing your
string, the way to copy a string is with StrCopy().
That said, your code works because a string literal
is represented in code as a pointer ... but it is a pointer
to memory that can not be changed. Therfore your code
worked ... but probably not the way you were intending.
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