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Subject: Re: CS-551 warmup-1
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:30:04 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > One of the args to client is hostname:port. I know how to open a socket when
  > they are separate strings, but is there a way to do it that would not 
  > require parsing the string (in other words that would set up the socket 
  > based on hostname:port).

You need to parse the string!  It shouldn't be too bad.  You
can use strchr() to look for the ':' character.  If you find
it, you can replace it by a '\0' and move the string pointer
down by 1 character position.  Then you have a string pointer
for the hostname and a string pointer for the port number.
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Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>