Re: trailing comma in delete statement

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Aug 22), Paul DuBois said:
> At 10:15 PM -0700 8/22/99, Mick Hanna wrote:
> >im calling a loop like so:
> >
> >printf("%s,",rmid[i]);
> 
> You have to know when you're printing the last item in your list,
> and don't print the trailing comma when you reach that item.

A better way is to _prepend_ the comma, but not for the first element:

    for (i = 0; i < numitems; i++)
    {
        printf("%s%s", (i > 0) ? "," : "", rmid[i]);
    }

That way the special case is the "first element?" case instead of the
"last element?" case.

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	Dan Nelson
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