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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 05:23:23 +0000
Organization: Fix this later
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On 19/03/2025 05:02, DFS wrote:
> 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?

I'm not sure a new edition is necessary, but if it is to be 
written it would be better served by someone like Keith or Tim, 
both of whom have (as I have not) kept up with the 
million-and-one changes that appear to have assailed the simple 
language I once enjoyed.

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Richard Heathfield
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