shift() in C std lib

[Kevin D. Clark]

"Price, Erik" <eprice at ptc.com> writes:

> From: bscott at ntisys.com [mailto:bscott at ntisys.com] wrote: 

>>   If you do not already have a copy, obtain a copy of _The C 
>> Programming
>> Language_, 2nd edition, by K&R.  You must do this if you 
>> program in C.  
>> It's a law.
>
> I almost got one last night!  Elaine Ashton and Jarkko Hietaniemi
> were giving away their book collection at the boston.pm meeting.
> Someone got to it right before I got there.

Also check out _C -- A Reference Manual_ by Harbison and Steele.


If you're interested in C++, you might check out the STL -- problems
like what you're alluding to can be easily solved with this library.
But if you're supposed to use C and the C standard library, then this
option is not available to you.

Regards,

--kevin
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