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Have you checked the exection of the "for" loop in the
debugger?

Jim


On 12 Mar 2007 22:10:47 -0700,Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:10:11
-0000
 "magzky02" <magzky02@yahoo.com> wrote:
> i would like to get the sum of values of characters in a
> string. I 
> use to get the checksum.
> 
> ex.
> strcopy(string1, "abcdefghigklmnopqrstuvwxyz");
> 
> this does not work:
> 
> sum=0;
> for (i = 0; i < strlen(string1); i++)
> {
> sum = sum + string[i];
> }
> 
> but this works:
> 
> sum = string1[0] + string1[1] + .... + string[25];
> 
> but is too lengthy to do the later method.
> is there any shorter method to get the sum of values in a
> string? 
> 
> regards
> 
> mago
> 

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