Vamsi wrote: > i have seen a code snippet which starts with + symbol, > > +system("ls -l"); I suspect that the "code snippet" in question comes from the output of "diff -u", and the + is part of the diff syntax, not part of the code. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html