Scoping question in C

[pking123-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org]

> On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 pking123-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org wrote:

> Incidentally, the code as you showed it wouldn't even compile, since
> you wrote "#indlude" instead of "#include" once.  This presumably
> means you retyped it rather than doing cut-and-paste or reading it
> from a file into your mail message.  That's a bad idea, because typos
> can make major differences in how a program behaves; when asking about
> a programming problem, it's very important to show *exactly* the code
> you tried to run. 

I pasted the program after playing around with it, but thought I 
would go back to the original version that had return (EXIT_SUCCESS); 
in the code. For that, I had to add #include <stdlib.h>, which I did 
by hand, along with the return statement.

> 
> > When I compiled your source code with a slight modification: single
> > quotes around the %s... I got 'something ' Note the \n came *before*
> > the closing quote in the output but not in the printf().
> 
> That's peculiar, but I suspect that another typo might be at fault. 
> I'm not going to try to diagnose this one without seeing the exact
> code.

That was my mistake. Quote should have been before the \n.

> 
>                                    Henry Spencer
>                                    henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org
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