"Odd" Prep School Rules ???

[ga314ref]

Originally Posted by jTheUmp

Computer programmer humor. If you're writing computer code, you get to declare a variable as a specific type, and the type you declare has certain (that may be different for other types of variables).

char string[4] = "5", 
char string[4] = "05"

These are examples of character strings. In this case, each one is 4 characters long. In these examples, we have " 5" and " 05" respectively. Since character strings are compared literally, these two values are NOT identical.

Those are actually arrays.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by jTheUmp

Computer programmers.

Originally Posted by ga314ref

Those are actually arrays.

There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.

[jTheUmp]

Originally Posted by ga314ref

Those are actually arrays.

True... I was just trying to simplify it a bit for the non-computer-programmer types in the audience.

(and, of course, some languages treat Strings and Character arrays as if they're identical... which they probably are once you get into the compiled code).