Re: string parsing algorithm



Robbie Hatley wrote:

About 12 days ago, I'd written in this thread:

I think I'll post the C code for my calculator this evening when
I get home, so you can see what I'm talking about.

But I forgot to do that. And then when I set about doing that, I
found that my program was 110 chars wide (my default for home
programming, because it allows me to write comments in a collumn
down the right-hand side), which is not really suitable for Usenet;
so I had to reformat it to 78-chars-wide.

Actually quite clean, and will probably come through unscathed most
places. However, a couple of tips:

Try to keep usenet line widths under 72. 65 is even better.
This allows things to survive a quote or two.

Don't use // comments. They get fouled on a line wrap.

This is not enough to warrant a resend, but you might keep it in
mind for future things.

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Chuck F (cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx) (cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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