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From: DFS <nospam@dfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 01:02:04 -0400
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On 3/19/2025 12:51 AM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> 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.

Cool.  Thanks for looking at it.

Hey, how are your C book (from 2000) sales?  Thought about a new edition?

https://www.amazon.com/C-Unleashed-Richard-Heathfield/dp/0672318962