Since that was a brief comment in my original email, I failed to mention that they were
told they did not have access to the Standard C library. However, in a followup question,
a surprising number demonstrated little knowledge of that collection of functionality. I
don't remember how many times I explained strtok().... -- Ian
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I used to ask college grads to write a function in C
to convert a
null-terminated string representing an octal number into an int.
And what did you do with the people who wrote (int)strtol(s,0,8)? :)
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