C programming hint
Chris Torek
chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Fri Jul 12 08:02:33 AEST 1985
> I found a way to initialize an array of characters without using a loop.
> Here is the method I used:
>
> char blanks[SIZE]; /* declare array of SIZE elements */
> blanks[0] = ' '; /* initialize 1st element */
> strncpy(blanks + 1, blanks, SIZE - 1); /* initialize entire array */
Beware, that won't work on Vax systems that use movc3 for string copies
(probably Sys VR2V2.2.2.2... [sorry :-)] and 4.3 both).
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