Re: Newbie-Question: Function-Parameters

From: dandelion (someone_at_meadow.net)
Date: 10/07/04 

Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:00:15 +0200

"merman" <merman@snafu.de> wrote in message
news:416556a4$0$168$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de...
> Hi,
>
> What is the most common way to pass an array into a function - and how
> can I return it?

By pointer, which is even simpler than you may think. you could call

void foobar(int bla[])
{

}

or

void foobar( int* bla)
{

}

using

int barfoo[3] = { 1, 2, 3 };
foobar(barfoo);

The two forms of function foobar are (more or less) equivalent. the sole
identifier 'barfoo' (as opposed to barfoo[2]) evaluates to a pointer to the
array.

See? Easy.

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