Thread: pointer to char

hi

i'm evaluating a string. ppos (char *) points to the beginning. it's assured that '"' or ' ' occures befor the beginning of the string is reached. however, whats wrong with this expression

Code:

	plen=0;
	while(*(ppos+plen) != ' ' || *(ppos+plen) != '"')
		++plen;
	strncpy(line2,ppos,plen);

it should get the lengt of a pattern till '"' or ' ' is reached. however it doesn't do anything but just increasing plen (size_t) and looping endless.

thanks

Code:

while(*(ppos+plen) != ' ' || *(ppos+plen) != '"')
	++plen;

This loop will loop forefer:

Code:

while(a != 1 || a != 2)

Try && instead.

thanks, stupid error

that's done before. i assure that it is a valid string, so checking for '\0' would just be an overhead.