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Top Forums Programming Masking Password with *'s Post 302482804 by Corona688 on Wednesday 22nd of December 2010 02:52:21 PM
Old 12-22-2010
The difference between an array and a pointer is nil as far as your code's concerned. They both work with the [] operator the exact same way.

Instead of using a global variable, which works but is ugly and unsafe, you should pass a pointer into the function for it to use. This also leaves room for a proper return value to check if an error happened.
Code:
int read_unbuffered(int *password)
{
    ...
    if(success)
        return(1);
    else
        return(0);
}

int main(void)
{
    int arr[4];

    if(read_unbuffered(arr))
    {
        fprintf(stderr, "read pass\n");
    }
    else
    {
       fprintf(stderr, "couldn't read pass\n");
    }
    return(0);
}

 

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COLLATOR_SORT(3)							 1							  COLLATOR_SORT(3)

Collator::sort - Sort array using specified collator

	Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
public bool Collator::sort (array &$arr, [int $sort_flag]) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style bool collator_sort (Collator $coll, array &$arr, [int $sort_flag]) This function sorts an array according to current locale rules. Equivalent to standard PHP sort(3) . PARAMETERS
o $coll -Collator object. o $arr - Array of strings to sort. o $sort_flag - Optional sorting type, one of the following: o Collator::SORT_REGULAR - compare items normally (don't change types) o Collator::SORT_NUMERIC - compare items numerically o Collator::SORT_STRING - compare items as strings Default sorting type is Collator::SORT_REGULAR. It is also used if an invalid $sort_flag value has been specified. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 collator_sort(3) example <?php $coll = collator_create( 'en_US' ); $arr = array( 'at', 'as', 'as' ); var_export( $arr ); collator_sort( $coll, $arr ); var_export( $arr ); ?> The above example will output: array ( 0 => 'at', 1 => 'as', 2 => 'as', )array ( 0 => 'as', 1 => 'as', 2 => 'at', ) SEE ALSO
Collator constants, collator_asort(3), collator_sort_with_sort_keys(3). PHP Documentation Group COLLATOR_SORT(3)
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