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Re: Newbie half off topic: '*' substituted by 'c'



> I made a simple code to examplify, a calculation program, but when
> you do: "conta 2 * 4" it doesn't do the multiplication, after making
> a printf call to see what argc[2] contains, it appears 'c'.  Anyone
> knows what is happening?

The '*' is being treated like a file wildcard.  You need to quote it:

conta 2 '*' 4
conta 2 "*" 4
conta 2 \* 4

Try doing "ls -l *" and you'll probably see that the first file listed
is file "c".

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