vaxinf at chemie.uni-konstanz.de wrote: (snip) > int i,sum=0,n=10; > for (i = n; i = 0; i--) { > (void)printf (" i: %i\n",i); > } Another problem to watch out for in C decrementing for loops is shown here: unsigned int i,n; for(i=n;i>=0;i--) printf(" i=%x\n",i); Many compilers will warn about it, though. -- glen