From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: getkey()
Date: 19 Oct 2001 19:17:56 GMT
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"Bart van den Burg" <bart AT bart99 DOT tmfweb DOT nl> wrote in
news:9qpp2o$b1t$1 AT cyan DOT nl DOT gxn DOT net: 

> the program gives me no compilation errors at all (compliled with
> -Wall) I could be wrong here but:
> you have "(int)variable" which is the same as "int(variable), so
> "(char)variable" is similar to "char(variable)"?

no that is so fundamentally wrong, i do not know how to begin.

(int) variable

means cast the variable to int no matter what it was before.

on the other hand, int(x), and this only exists in C++, AFAIK, means create 
a new integer with the initial value x.

in this case, you are not trying to intialize a new char out of x, but jsut 
use the value of x.

>  sprintf(buffer, "%c", char(x));

you definitely should use snprintf, however, instead of sprintf.
or better yet, use a C++ solution if you are working in C++.

Sinan.

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