From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: I need help adressing characters in a string
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:32:26 -0300
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Chris Mears wrote:

> >   char string[100];
> >     for (i = 0; i < sizeof (string) - 1; i++)
>
> In the for loop:  i < sizeof (string)?  Do you mean strlen() or
> something else?  If I recall correctly, sizeof returns the number of
> bytes in a data type.  So if string, in this case, is a constant pointer
> to char, wouldn't it be 2 or 4 bytes, not the dynamic length of the
> string?

    It's not a dynamic length.  And 'string' isn't a simple pointer.  Using
sizeof on an array with a constant size will return the number of bytes in the
array.

char string[100];
char* a = string;

sizeof(a);

This will return 4, because 'a' is a (char *) and not an array.  The real type
of 'string' is (char [100]) it just casts to a (char *) without any warnings.

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