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Though there are many good texts for learning C basics I found, as many others have, that pointers cause more problems and are hard to get right. Though it is old, 1997, this is the best book on C...

Thanks folks.

Duh me, I knew better. Must be the rabies vaccine.

Figured there would be syntax errors and typos as I just typed it up in notepad.

Thanks, again.

Oops, no return statement in main(). Just threw this together in notepad....

The snippet below (or similar) compiles and runs OK but I am using Visual Studio C++ compiler. Are the lines where .nameFirst and .nameLast assigned kosher in ANSI C?

Also I am concerned about the...

's OK. 'Twas a point that need to be made more often IMO.
jh

[QUOTE=anduril462;1119715]A few things first:


It's int main(void) and return an int at the end (usually 0). Read this link.
Embedded, nowhere to return to.
Please copy/paste your code as...

thanks for the reference
jvh

I have used a function call to iniatialize a static const variable and a co-worker says it is not legit.

My sparring partner says it would not even be legit if I remove the const because he...