string assignment in C

[Peter da Silva]

In article <6777 at chinet.chi.il.us>, john at chinet.chi.il.us (John Mundt) writes:
> Now, this would be different:

> char p[] = { 't','h','i','s',' ','a',' ','s','t','r','i','n','g','\n' };

> main()
> {
> 	printf(p);
> }

Different all right. You forgot to terminate your string. Your milage
will vary, but I got:

% a.out | vcat
this a string
l&^Z'.^R% []

[] is the cursor.
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