On 09 Oct 96, Roy McNeill wrote to Paul Wankadia --



 PW> Oh.  What if I use strdup() locally to create another string?

 RM> You can get the length of the current string anytime with strlen(),



Yeah -- I figured that out later...  Especially if initialised to ""...



 RM> and this will return the same value on the new string produced with

 RM> strdup(). Neither technique will tell you anything about the [100]



Tho I wish it would! <:(



 RM> that was declared before your function was called - if you want

 RM> that figure, you'll have to pass that number as a parameter to the

 RM> function, or declare it globally somehow.



As I've had drummed into me now :)  Parameter time, I think...



 RM> Exactly why do you need the max length? Why can't you work with

 PW> Eh? I'm writing my own custom Get_Input() function and I'd like to

 PW> cut down the number of parameters that it takes -- especially the

 PW> one that passes the length of String... The length may vary from

 RM> Why? Let the user pass the string to you, find its length with

 RM> strlen(), and use alloc(), malloc(), new (in C++), or their

 RM> relatives, to allocate any memory whose size depends on this



I'm assuming they've allocated memory already...



 RM> length. (Don't forget to dispose of this memory when you're

 RM> finished with it - use free() or delete or whatever. A polluted

 RM> heap can stuff up your program much later, and is a real bugger to

 RM> track down.)



Righto then.  Noted and thanks.



Chow.



Junyer Hakker.



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