Thread: Can a pointer accept user input?

Originally Posted by Programmer_P

Ok, thanks. That did it.
On another note, I think I remember reading in a tut on this site that in a for loop, any one of the 3 fields (i.e. variable initialization, condition, or variable update) can be left blank if necessary, only the semicolons have to be there. But oddly enough that did not work.

I had to change the

Code:

for ( ; x != 1; ; )

line to a

Code:

for (int i; x != 1;)

instead, before it worked.

That first line has an errant semicolon. That's why it didn't work and why the other one does work.