Re: string concatanation

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

He's got a point ... I recommend
        Advanced programming in the UNIX Environment
by W. Richard Stevens

for the same price range as a basic C bible you'll
get basic algorithmes for Interprocess Communication
databases and all kinds of interesting stuff.


Thomas Cameron wrote:
> Jacob,
>
>         I think your best bet is to purchase a C book for your
> particular platform (Linux, Windows, etc.).  These books usually discuss
> (some more in-depth than others) basic file I/O functions.  They will
> also discuss concatenation, general language in's and out's, etc.
>
>         You will find such information indisposable when working on
> projects, as you may find yourself refering back to them time and again.
> Also, if you are programming for Linux, there are _countless_ books,
> HOWTOs, Guides, and other forms of information available...many for
> FREE.
>
> Good luck,
> Tom Cameron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacob Perkins [mailto:jap1 ionet net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 2:56 PM
> To: Tristan Van Berkom
> Cc: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: string concatanation
>
> Thanks, I was getting segfaults with %s.
> Also, another non-gtk, but related issue. I need to be able to
> open/display and save text files. I know how to do the display part, but
> I don't know the file io aspects. So, given a filename, how can I access
> it for a text display, and save text to that file? Are there any good c
> file access tutorials on the net? Thanks for any help.
>
> On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 13:25, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> > sorry .... it will obviously be "%d" not "%s" (oops)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> > > I think you want something like this:
> > >
> > > {
> > >     gchar *allocated_string = g_strdup_printf("var=%s",
> > > ((gint)ENUM));
> > >
> > >     ...
> > >
> > >     g_free(allocated_string);
> > > }
> > >
> > > Cheers.
> > >
> > > Jacob Perkins wrote:
> > > > This is isn't directly related to gtk, but it's for a gtk project.
>
> > > > I've programmed in java and c++, but not straight c, so I'm
> > > > wondering how to concatanate a string. Here's my situation: I have
>
> > > > a set of enums, some of which are configuration defaults. I'd like
>
> > > > to be able to do 'var =
> > > > gnome_config_private_get_int("var="+ENUM)', so that the default
> > > > value of var is ENUM, but that doesn't seem to work in c. So, how
> > > > can I specify this default int value without knowing the specific
> > > > ENUM int value? Thanks
> > > >
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