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Monday April 14, 2003
05:46 AM

C is not Perl.

[ #11633 ]
Today I was writing a quick C program. I started off with the lines:

    # use <stdlib.h>
    # use <stdio.h>

and I didn't notice it until the compiler complained.

Abigail
(Darn, why isn't <PRE> allowed? That would make it a lot easier to show code.)


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  • I recently spent some time staring at the following C code and wondering why it was giving a parse error:
    if (p) { p++ } /* Error 1 */

    But worse still was the following (simplified) awk program that returned 0 for the number of counted words:

    awk '{$c += NF} END{print $c}' file   # Error 2

    --
    John.

    1. Missing statement terminator. 2. Should be c instead of $c.

  • It's smarter <pre> .

    --

    -- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]

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