Function argument question

[Stanley Friesen]

In article <555 at brl-tgr.ARPA> ART at acc.ARPA (Art Berggreen) writes:
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>One way to approach this is to pass a pointer to the char pointer in
>the function call.  You can then update the char pointer before the
>function returns, and the return value of the function can be the
>integer.
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	Another approach is to pass the function a second argument,
a pointer to an int for the numeric result and actually *return*
the new char pointer. This avoids using a pointer to a pointer.
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				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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