Re: Array iteration

From:
Victor Bazarov <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:49:48 -0400
Message-ID:
<h6uudd$ost$1@news.datemas.de>
jeff_hann wrote:

Hi everyone. I'm a newbie in c++ and I have a question related to the
an exercise in Stroustrup's book, namely
5.9/8. It's about iterations in a given array using pointers vs using
indexes. The indexes one I managed to write, but when I try to execute
the pointer variant (it compiles ok on BSD and Linux also) , I get the
string I wanted to see plus lots of gibberish and a segfault. What's
wrong? Here's the code :

  1 #include <iostream>
  2
  3 using namespace std;
  4
  5
  6
  7 int main()
  8 {
  9 int i;


You don't need 'i' here, do you?

 10 char *p;
 11 char v[] = "Testing...";
 12
 13 for(p = v; p != 0; p++)


How would 'p' ever become 0 (null pointer)? Perhaps you meant to
compare the *contents* of the memory to which 'p' points with 0?

Also, consider declaring 'p' where you need it, not up ahead, waaaay
before ever using it.

 14 cout << *p << endl;
 15
 16 return 0;
 17 }


Please avoid posting line numbers in the future, they are in the way.
When your code is more complicated, somebody (like I) will want to
copy-and-paste your code and compile it and run it, but then they'd need
to clean out all those extraneous digits...

V
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