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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 04:51:02 +0000
Organization: Fix this later
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On 19/03/2025 04:42, DFS wrote:
> Pretty easy fixes:
> 
> 1 use scanf()
> 2 update int to long
> 3 handle special case of n = 1
> 4 instead of collecting the results in a char variable, I print
>    them as they're calculated

You've also fixed another glitch which may or may not have been 
significant:

$ file post2.txt
post2.txt: news, ASCII text

So wherever that UTF-8 came from, it's gone now.

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