lol, thanks. I could have said x[i] is the same as ^(x + i) and really thought that was the correct syntax. The problem is I have used enough languages and dialects that I really can't brush up on it all. I just say if it's been five years, let me break out my cheet sheet for that stuff.

PS: Ok, if it was really just a C job of course I would focus on that.

Edit: Dammit it is like riding a bike. I have been having C flashbacks to horrible old code. O Malloc how do I hate the let me count the ways.

My solution to this problem was to make up sets of editor macros for the various languages I've used, with the same key chords producing the same semantics in varying syntax.

Maybe it was Visual C++ you were programming in. ^ is for a handle to a object on the managed heap so it's almost the same as pointer. http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/yk97tc08.aspx

I was thinking it was Pascal - I think ^ is the syntax for pointers in Pascal, but the last time I programmed in that language, I was 12.

Yep, pascal had ^ and @.

Around 5 years ago I was spent a lot of time working with really old Object Pascal and some C code that was upgraded to OS 8/9 and then left to rot. Let me just say that low level networking code on a OS that does not have threads is a PITA. They had something like interrupts but you could not allocate memory during them. You had to first allocate using Handel's and then do something before working with actual pointers as part of your run loop and then use that memory during the interrupts. Meh, I think it might have been the most fun coding project I have ever been on, but I don't want to do that again.