Re: tlug: simple C

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Jim Schweizer wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I made the mistake of opening one of those dusty C books tonight
> to experiment with some ASCII. Now I'm really confused. Suppose
> I have a head.h with:
> 
> -----------------------------------
> schweiz:~/devel/C/scratch$ less head.h
> /* This is my li'l header file. */
> 
> #define CONFUSED 227
>  
> -----------------------------------
> 
> and a test file with:
> 

> 
> What I see is an 'a' with a tilde over it, not the pi sign my
> ASCII table says I should be getting...
> 
> Grrrr, how aggrevating - what am I doing wrong?

Your ascii table is wrong.  I think you want #28.  Here's a simple c
program that generates an ascii table for you:

#include <stdlib.h>

int x;

int main(void) {
	for (x=0;x < 256;x++) {
		printf("%d = %c\n",x,x);
	}
	return 0;
}

according to this, #28 is the pi.

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