PW> My input routine requires that the programmer pass (as a parameter) the
PW> maximum length of the string :

PW> after they have declared the variable with a certain length (e.g. like this 
PW> :

PW> char String[100] = "";

PW> I tried to automatically determine the maximum string length by using :

PW> int Max_Length = sizeof(String) / sizeof(char);

sizeof(char) is useless - it will ALWAYS be 1.

PW> because it is an array of char.  What am I doing wrong?

Apart from that (it does no harm), what is actually wrong?  I can't see any
reason why the above code wouldn't set Max_Length to 100. Of course, the
statement above needs to have String[100] in scope, not char *String (which
would return 2/4/etc).  BFN.  Paul. 
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