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Re: To use Perl like conditional assignment in C

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Eric Sosman wrote:
) Or, if you prefer, use
)
) 	cfgval = loadConfig(DEFAULT_VALUE);
)
) where loadConfig() loads and returns the value from the configuration
) file, or returns its own argument if unable to load anything.  You
) could even put DEFAULT_VALUE into loadConfig() itself, producing
)
) 	cfgval = loadConfig();
)
) where loadConfig() loads and returns the file's value if it can, or
) returns DEFAULT_VALUE if unable.

I prefer the first, because of the more real-world generic version:
  cfgval = loadConfig('foo_num', FOO_DEFAULT_VALUE);

Which I've used plenty of times.


SaSW, Willem
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To use Perl like conditional assignment in C Ya Shou <shouyatf@gmail.com> - 2011-09-24 04:06 -0700
  Re: To use Perl like conditional assignment in C Willem <willem@toad.stack.nl> - 2011-09-24 11:13 +0000
  Re: To use Perl like conditional assignment in C pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2011-09-24 07:48 -0400
    Re: To use Perl like conditional assignment in C Uno <merrilljensen@q.com> - 2011-09-24 21:58 -0700
      Re: To use Perl like conditional assignment in C pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2011-09-25 08:44 -0400
        Re: To use Perl like conditional assignment in C Uno <merrilljensen@q.com> - 2011-09-26 21:52 -0700
          Re: To use Perl like conditional assignment in C pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2011-09-27 21:14 -0400
            Re: To use Perl like conditional assignment in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-09-27 19:56 -0700
      Re: To use Perl like conditional assignment in C Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-25 06:53 -0700
      Re: To use Perl like conditional assignment in C "J. J. Farrell" <jjf@bcs.org.uk> - 2011-09-26 04:40 +0100
  Re: To use Perl like conditional assignment in C Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-09-24 09:04 -0400
    Re: To use Perl like conditional assignment in C Willem <willem@toad.stack.nl> - 2011-09-24 14:06 +0000
    Re: To use Perl like conditional assignment in C Ya Shou <shouyatf@gmail.com> - 2011-09-26 21:10 -0700
    Re: To use Perl like conditional assignment in C Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-09-29 22:08 +0000
  Re: To use Perl like conditional assignment in C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-09-26 01:37 +0100

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