Re: Pointer question...last for the day? :-)

"mdh" <mdeh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> One thing has puzzled me a while ( well, more than one thing!).
>
> If I have a function:
>
> foo( char *s){

A copy of the address s is passed to foo.

> char *t = s;

We store a copy if the copied address into pointer t.

> .....
>
>
> s++;  <<--- a few arbitrary times

We increment the copy of the address that was pushed into the function a
few 
times.

> }
>
> Now...my question is this.
>
> Is "t" independent of s, in the sense of:
>
> 1) Will it still point to the beginning of s, after s++ ?

Of course.

> 2) I guess related to 1, if I now evaluate *t, will it be the first
> character in s?

I guess that K&R2 Chapter 5 will be helpful. 


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