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Re: Misc. unresolved stuff

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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: schaefer@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Misc. unresolved stuff
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 22:27:44 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <960719125917.ZM391@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Bart Schaefer at "Jul 19, 96 12:59:17 pm"
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary
Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368

Bart wrote:
> > ! 		while (*++str != endchar)
> > ! 		    DPUTS(!*str, "Oops. parse error in command substitution");
> 
> Shouldn't that be:
> 
> 		while (*++str && *str != endchar)
> 
> ??  Otherwise you could go wandering off the end of str ...

At least it will be obvious that something is wrong.  It should be
impossible for a null to come before the endchar.

Zoltan

References:
- Re: Misc. unresolved stuff
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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