Thank you so very much... I got my drawing routine to
work :-)
--- Matt Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> christy wrote:
> > Thank you Matt.
> >
> > If you don't mind I ask, what does this statement
> do?
> > short_str[j] = 0;
>
> it's the same as:
> short_str[j] = '\0';
> 0 and '\0' are essentially the same because '\0'
> means a single
> null-zero character which is a byte of value 0x00.
>
> >
> > Also, would the following initialize short_str to
> an
> > empty string?
> >
> > Char * short_str;
> > short_str[0] = '\0';
>
> no, because it does not allocate memory and assign
> the pointer. if you
> want a string, you need to allocate memory, the
> easiest way is this:
> char short_str[20] = { 0 };
> which allocates 20 bytes of space and sets each item
> in the array to 0.
> keep in mind that you have to account for the null
> zero so that array
> would only hold a 19 character string. If you need
> more space just
> increase 20 to whatever size you need.
>
>
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