Olin Lathrop wrote:

><soapbox>Stuff like *DATA++ reminds me of why C is so evil in the first
>place.  It's bad enough that the language allows you to put three separate
>things into one statement, but even worse when someone writes code like
>that.  No optimizations would have been lost by writing this as two lines:
>
>  data++;           //advance to next character in string
>  } while (*data);  //back to handle next character
>
>C has encouraged a whole generation of programmers to write cutesy obtuse
>code.</soapbox>

Great power requires great responsability..
C was made for Real Programmers (tm), others have options like BASIC. *grin*

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