On 30 Sep 96, Paul Edwards wrote to Paul Wankadia --



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

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

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



Whoops... :)



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

 PE> Apart from that (it does no harm), what is actually wrong?  I can't



The



int Max_Length = sizeof(String);



is supposed to be in a function that is called and passed a char * to String,

which (I am told) will then make Max_Length the sizeof() a char * !!!



 PE> see any reason why the above code wouldn't set Max_Length to 100. Of

 PE> course, the statement above needs to have String[100] in scope, not

 PE> char *String (which would return 2/4/etc).  BFN.  Paul.



That is correct -- I am getting 2, not 100.  How do I get the correct length

with just a char * ???



Chow.



Junyer Hakker.



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