What is [ic:ccc]!?

[Rhodium]

In a listing in my C book, there was code that was unexplained for a while loop that looked like this:

while ( n < MAXLINES && fgets(buffer, 80, stdin) != 0 && 
       [ic:ccc]buffer[0] != '\n')
{
    if ((lines[n] = (char *)malloc(strlen(buffer)+1)) == NULL)
        return -1;
    strcpy( lines[n++], buffer );
}

Could someone tell me what the [ic:ccc] part is?

Thanx

[Hammer]

It looks like part of the books formatting. Might be designed to be replaced with some kind of highlight marker, or it maybe an kind of bookmark type thing. Or maybe it denotes that the line has had to be split across two lines to fit the page.

Whatever it is, it ain't part of the code, and you should ignore it for now.

[Rhodium]

Originally posted by Salem
> Could someone tell me what the [ic:ccc] part is?
Junk - it doesn't make any sense

Which book?

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