Subj : Re: strrev oddity
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Georges <nokomis@radiolink.net>
Date : Tue Jan 06 2004 05:02 pm



"Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" wrote:

> There is no bug.  The function is supposed to reverse the order of the
> characters in the string
>
> In the IDE plac the cursor on the word strrev and press ^F1 to get help on
> the function.  You will see something like this:
>
>   -------------------
>   Reverses a string.
>   strrev changes all characters in a string to reverse order,
>   except the terminating null character. (For example, it
>   would change string\0 to gnirts\0.)
>
>   Return Value
>   strrev returns a pointer to the reversed string.
>   -------------------
>
> .  Ed
>
> > Georges wrote in message
> > news:3FFAD8C3.A7B9B906@radiolink.net...
> >
> > strrev does something most odd!  (5.02)
> >
> > reversing a string with brackets changes the bracket
> > symbol so for example
> >
> > strrev(" [12345] "); produces   ]54321[
> > Surely it should be [54321] !!
> >
> > Likewise with {} and ()
> >
> > Is there a fix for this apparent bug ?

Ed,
Umm!  Yes, I suppose that is strictly correct.  But it looks odd!
Mea Culpa!

Georges

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