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to: ALEX WALKER
from: TIM HUTZLER
date: 1997-12-20 21:45:00
subject: Re: Finding the end of a

-=>Quoting Peter Haywood to Alex Walker <=-
PH>Groovy hepcat Alex Walker jived with All on 06 Dec 97  16:33:48!
PH>Finding the end of an array?'s a cool scene. Dig it!
AW>Just wondering, if an array is passed to a function, is there a
AW>way  to test for or find the end of the array without having the
AW>size of the array passed to the function?
AW>If it's a char string one could search/test for the null
AW>character, but what if it's an array of integers?
PH>Use a dummy value. That's really all a terminating null is on a
PH>string, after all. The dummy value could be anithing you're sure won't
PH>occur in your data, for example: 0, INT_MAX, INT_MIN, UINT_MAX, etc..
An interger can be any of these values. A better way would be to pass
a array count as the first element of the array. Or, pass it in a
struct.
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