Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site proper.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!proper!geoff From: geoff@proper.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: sizeof "string" Message-ID: <976@proper.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 03:55:05 EST Article-I.D.: proper.976 Posted: Mon Feb 6 03:55:05 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 13:25:14 EST References: <4964@umcp-cs.UUCP> Organization: Proper UNIX, San Leandro, CA Lines: 7 > char permute[] = "\3\2\1\9\8\7... Naughty, naughty! In the FIRST place, \9 is NOT a legal octal value. In the second place, if you are initializing a "char" array to binary numbers, rather than characters, you should use: char permute[] = {3, 2, 1, 9, 8, 7...