Re: char *test[position]

[Joel Stanley <jstanley@up.edu>]

On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Felix Kollmann wrote:

> I try to get a char of a char * :
> 
> 	unsigned int position= 0;
> 	char *test;
> 	printf ("%s", test[position]);
> 
> But the programm prints the complete string down to [position] .

Use %c as your formatting code instead of %s...%s will print until it hits
a null char, I believe.

i.e.
char *test = "asdf qwerty";
printf("%c\n", test[3]);

should print the character f and a newline char.

-j
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