Benjamin Draper wrote:
>
> A few people asked me for this a while back. It's taken from the
> Archipelago code on the ftp site, cleaned up a little. Do with it
> what you will.
>
> [snip]
That won't/doesn't work and it's hideously terrible code. This, in
particular, appalled me:
> for (len = argument; *(len) != '\0'; len++);
> len--;
The coder must have been smoking crack here. Heard of "strlen()"?
And what's with the pointer to hold one single character? etc. etc.
> switch (*len) {
Make this, "switch (*(argument+strlen(len)-1)) {" and remove the
"len" thing (which wasn't even declared in the code).
-dak
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