From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Pointing into a string
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 22:40:19 -0700
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Nicklas Lindgren wrote:

> I've tried making a pointer to a char in the string, and then
> implicitly converting it to an int. I used something like:
> 
> char string[255];
> int x = 5;
> *(int *)&string[0] = x;
> 
> // And for testing that it works:
> x = *(int *)&string[0];
> cout << x;
> 
> The same number comes out in the other end, but it doesn't seem to end
> up in the string.

Of course it doesn't.  ints and NUL-terminated character strings are not
the same thing.

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