> On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Christian Loth wrote:
>
> ->Use either d->str or (*d).str but I think *d->str doesn't look right.
>
> There is a lesson to be learned here. Never assume that a variable is
> cast in a particular way. FYI, "d->str"--directly from structs.h--is
> cast as, "char **d->str". Which means, "*d->str" is the correct way
> to access a string of characters in d->str (I assume a line), and
> then, that "**d->str" can be used to access single characters of one
> line in d->str. :)
Of course, thats right, yet the code snippet wasn't referring to single
lines as I saw it, but to the existence of a text (as in: several
strings); first an if-statment to see wheter a text exists at all, and
then a function that 'sends' the text...that's why it didn't seem right.
- Chris
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