even pointers?
as long as not NULL?.. i never used that.. thanks
alok


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Ammerman [SMTP:RAMMERMAN@PRODIGY.NET]
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 8:05 PM
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> Subject:      Re: [OT]: quick question on C
>
> > come to think of it, after taking a 2nd look at that statement - i think
> it
> > really means:
> >
> >  for (pass=rx_str[ptr1+1]; ptr1<size && pass=1; ptr1++) {
>
> Well, first, you probably meant to say 'pass==1'.
>
> > beacuse we are dealing with a boolean AND, therefore for pass to be
> 'true'
> it
> > must equals 1. makes sense?
>
> But now, a numeric or pointer type is treated as true as long as it is
> non-zero (non-null for pointers)
>
> Bob Ammerman
> RAm Systems
> (contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
> software)
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