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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: OT programming challenge: fastest/best/shortest C program to
 jumble a sentence, then restore it
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 03:31:26 -0000 (UTC)
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On 9 Mar 2024 03:14:10 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
<l522g2FqgibU6@mid.individual.net>:

> On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 15:41:13 -0500, DFS wrote:
> 
>> Sorry.  That's ALL from a crlf inserted by the newsreader.  It compiled
>> cleanly after I took it out.
> 
> Yup...
> 
> In production code I'd likely do
> 
> char* sentence;
> 
> sentence = strdup("Once you try it, you'll see it doesn't need spice.");
> if (sentence == NULL) {
>     printf("strdup() failed: %s", strerror(errno));
>     return -1;
> }

Seems like a lot of work that could be handled by
char sentence[] = "initializer";

Am I missing something?

> 
> Admittedly is the implied malloc() failed the odds of it printing
> anything aren't great but might as well try. I probably would use
> strtok_r() in production if there was a remote possibility that there
> would be another nested strtok(). That's ruined more than one
> programmer's day.
> 

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-v