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Re: Pascal style string in C language

From James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Pascal style string in C language
Date 2014-12-21 09:56 -0500
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On 12/21/2014 06:09 AM, Dexterr wrote:
> On Saturday, December 20, 2014 9:51:07 PM UTC+1, Keith Thompson wrote:
...
>> Perhaps (which is why I wrote "If").  But the question shows no effort
>> by the OP to solve it himself, and the very narrow requirement to write
>> a function to compare a C-style string vs. a Pascal-string smells to me
>> like homework.
>>
>> -- 
>> Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
>> Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
>> "We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
>>     -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
> 
> If you have some problem with homework just avoid this post. I don't need your fucking suggestion!

The problem is not with homework, but with people who get homework
assignments and ask for help without having apparently even attempted to
solve it themselves. And that's just as much of a problem even if you're
teaching yourself rather than being taught by someone else.
-- 
James Kuyper

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  Re: Pascal style string in C language BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-12-20 11:44 +0000
    Re: Pascal style string in C language Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-20 09:09 -0800
      Re: Pascal style string in C language Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-20 09:20 -0800
  Re: Pascal style string in C language Siri Crews <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-20 04:02 -0800
  Re: Pascal style string in C language Dejan Grubesic <dejangru@gmail.com> - 2014-12-20 04:25 -0800
    Re: Pascal style string in C language Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-20 12:10 -0800
  Re: Pascal style string in C language Vincenzo Mercuri <nomail@yahoo.it> - 2014-12-20 16:40 +0100
    Re: Pascal style string in C language Dexterr <dejangru@gmail.com> - 2014-12-21 03:07 -0800
      Re: Pascal style string in C language raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2014-12-21 17:50 +0000
  Re: Pascal style string in C language Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-12-20 12:08 -0800
    Re: Pascal style string in C language Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-20 12:13 -0800
      Re: Pascal style string in C language Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-12-20 12:50 -0800
        Re: Pascal style string in C language Dexterr <dejangru@gmail.com> - 2014-12-21 03:09 -0800
          Re: Pascal style string in C language James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-21 09:56 -0500
            Re: Pascal style string in C language gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-12-21 15:52 +0000
              Re: Pascal style string in C language Dexterr <dejangru@gmail.com> - 2014-12-21 08:01 -0800
                Re: Pascal style string in C language glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-22 00:40 +0000
                Re: Pascal style string in C language Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-12-22 11:49 -0500
              Re: Pascal style string in C language Vincenzo Mercuri <nomail@yahoo.it> - 2014-12-21 17:55 +0100
                Re: Pascal style string in C language Dexterr <dejangru@gmail.com> - 2014-12-22 05:45 -0800
                Re: Pascal style string in C language gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-12-22 14:40 +0000
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              Re: Pascal style string in C language Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2014-12-21 14:36 -0800
                Re: Pascal style string in C language Dexterr <dejangru@gmail.com> - 2014-12-21 15:06 -0800
              Re: Pascal style string in C language glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-22 00:38 +0000
              Re: Pascal style string in C language Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-23 00:06 -0800
    Re: Pascal style string in C language Dexterr <dejangru@gmail.com> - 2014-12-21 03:06 -0800
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