[ILUG] nice C question...

[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "JPL" == John P Looney <john at antefacto.com> writes:

    JPL> Given an array of integers, terminated with zero, what's the
    JPL> easiest way to make a string from it ?

What zero? --------------------------------
                                           v
    JPL>   int nums[]={2,76,1282,28182,1232};
    JPL>   char big_string[255];
    JPL>   char *tmp_ptr;

    JPL>   big_string[0]=0;
    JPL>   tmp_ptr=big_string;

    JPL>   while(*nums++!=0) {
    JPL>       /* start printing into the end of the previous output */
    JPL>       tmp_ptr=+(sprintf(tmp_ptr, "%s.%d",tmp_ptr,name) - 1);
                      ^^

Should be +=.  Only old broken compilers accept =+.

Also, I don't understand why your format is trying to print the
existing string *and* the number.

    JPL>   }
    JPL>   syslog(LOG_INFO, "big string is %s", big_string);

There may be more problems however.

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