Hmm...I think you meant to say C++ here. C doesn't give you that kind of flexibility; however, C++ does.

#include <stdio.h>

int main ( int iArgC, char * apsqArgV[] )
{
  printf ( "Hello, world! This is cygwqin speaking.\n" );
  {
    char szMsg[] = "Not so!";
    printf ( "Now inside scope, msg is %s.\n", szMsg );
  }
  return ( 0 );         //  Success is zero in Windows.
}
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This is the kind of scope that I was talking about. The char array szMsg is declared at the start of the scope; this code compiles and runs correctly under CygWin (Win98).

You may have been talking about the following:

void FooBar ( void )
{
  int   iBeer, iVodka;
  float fCredit = 20.0;

  ..  /* Code here */

  iBeer++;
  fCredit -= 2.50;

  .. /* More code */

  char *apszVarious[];   /* ILLEGAL in C */
}
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I will grant that this kind of variable declaration is valid in Perl but not valid in C.

--t. alex

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