Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:23:43 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value.... Message-ID: <72213BBF-5E05-430D-BF9A-FCD2666951C6@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20091019013337.GA9522@thought.org> References: <20091019013337.GA9522@thought.org>
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On Oct 18, 2009, at 8:33 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> Guys,
>
> maybe this can't be done reading in a file with fgets(buffer[128],
> fp),
> then calling skiptags(), conditionally, to while () past ',' and '>'.
>
> I know I need to calll skipTags with its address, skipTags
> (&buffer);, but then how to i
> handle the variable "s" in skipTags? Anybody?
The skipTags() you wrote doesn't return its result.
Without actually trying it I think this will work:
// redo, skip TAGS
char *skipTags( char *s )
{
if( *s == '<' ) {
while( *s && ( *s++ != '>' ) )
; // on a line of its own to make sure you see it
}
return s;
}
When not using a count to indicate how much data is in a char* you
should always test for null. Testing for null is not a sure fire way
to prevent buffer over runs but its better than nothing.
Use the above something like this:
char *buffPtr;
buffPtr = skipTags( buffPtr ); // advance over < > tags
--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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