From: Vic Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Pointing into a string Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:15:01 -0400 Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada Lines: 6 Message-ID: <35BCC3A5.30C3@cam.org> References: <35b91d1a DOT 2313606 AT news DOT algonet DOT se> <35B92DF2 DOT 2704E553 AT alcyone DOT com> <35bb828f DOT 9376142 AT news DOT algonet DOT se> <35BC12C3 DOT 56CDD310 AT alcyone DOT com> <6phn7j$b2h$1 AT star DOT cs DOT vu DOT nl> <35bcbcda DOT 22617702 AT news DOT algonet DOT se> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-528.hip.cam.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk what do you want to do anyways? Do you know where your int is in the string? like, taking the string "the value of the number is 65", the offset of 65 is 28. so if you'd add the address of the string and the offset of the number, you'd get a pointer to the first character of the number.