Re: Another Understanding Pointers Question

From: Robert Bachmann (Robert.Bachmann_at_rbdev.net)
Date: 05/10/04 

Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 18:08:43 +0200

Materialised wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I seen the post by Rob Morris, and thought that I would double check
> that I was using pointers in the correct way. So I written the following
> string functions to test. I know soem can be iumplimented using the
> standard libary, but I just wanted to test writing my own functions.
> They work ok, but I would like some feed back on any issues you can see
> with them etc

Just a minor note on your use of int.
As far as I think your string functions
will never work with negative values.
So you may want to consider using size_t instead.

> char *left(char *string, int count)
char *left(const char *string, size_t count)

etc.

Best regards,
  Robert Bachmann 

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