Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Sort of trivial code challenge - may be interesting to you anyway Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:53:22 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: <86ms0e8d7x.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <10n80sc$3soe4$1@dont-email.me> <86v7feei2e.fsf@linuxsc.com> <10o53k6$1i0ef$2@dont-email.me> <86ms0peby6.fsf@linuxsc.com> <10ockdh$3qpk6$1@dont-email.me> <10ocrjn$3qpk6$2@dont-email.me> <10od64s$3qpk6$4@dont-email.me> <86ikb9bmtw.fsf@linuxsc.com> <10oem5t$n5hk$1@dont-email.me> <86o6kz9zng.fsf@linuxsc.com> <10oi0un$1m7c1$5@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:53:26 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5f44bcdbc02769ce6998caa4a4cb2206"; logging-data="1387857"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19QTaSdoXCavLBdSN/Kj3wXsDUPC2WIR9M=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SCHLZTw2V4cugZoJZ3hr7S4fsFc= sha1:As0llNCfmGApkEmjFN3OcuSK1oo= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:396911 Lew Pitcher writes: > On Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:02:11 -0800, Tim Rentsch wrote: > >> Lew Pitcher writes: >> >>> [...] I look forward to seeing /your/ code :-) >> >> Here we go... > > [snip] > > Brilliant! > I bow to the master. Thank you, it's nice to be appreciated. > I obviously have a lot to learn > > Thank you, I've learned something new today. I am glad to hear that. I expect you will have no trouble discerning and absorbing the novel patterns you see in my code example.