why does'nt this work..

The peice of the program compiles and executes on a regular C compiler, but when I use a C++ compiler it compiles but crashes my system..
The C compiler is pacific c the C++ compiler is dev c++.

The program checks for brakets and deletes space between them..

int i. j = 0;
char file[20] = "<a h ref="sys tem.tx t">

for (i=0;i<numchar;i++){

if (file[i]=='<'){

do{
if (file[i]==' ')
i++;

if (file[i]!=' '){
file[j]=file[i];
j++;
}

}while (file[i]!='>'&&file[i]);

}
file[j]='\0';


when i comment out the j++ it compiles and runs..

Sorry I can't I'm at work..But it's basically the algorithm..It's like I can't insert another counter in the while loop without the program crashing..
Just set the array size bigger and initialize numchar to zero as an int..

Code:

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int main ( ) {
    char file[] = "wibble wibble <a h ref=\"sys tem.tx t\"> zippy bong";
    int i, j, inscope = 0;
    for ( i = 0, j = 0 ; file[i] != '\0' ; i++ ) {
        if ( !inscope && file[i] == '<' ) inscope = 1;
        if ( inscope && file[i] == '>' ) inscope = 0;
        if ( !inscope || (inscope && file[i] != ' ') ) {
            file[j++] = file[i];
        }
    }
    file[j] = '\0';
    printf( "%s\n", file );
    return 0;
}

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But "aref" should remain "a ref", so I think you need to revise your spec.