finding the length of a char*

[Al-Burak]

How can I find the length of a character pointer in 'C'?

TIA

[Neelesh Bodas]

Al-Burak wrote:

How can I find the length of a character pointer in 'C'?

By posting to comp.lang.c

[Jakob Bieling]

Al-Burak <ja******@netscape.net> wrote:

How can I find the length of a character pointer in 'C'?

If you mean the number of chars in the array the pointer points to,
then the general answer is: you can't. If this pointer points to an
array, where the end of the array is signalled by a 0-char, then you can
use strlen.

hth
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jb

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[Rolf Magnus]

Al-Burak wrote:

How can I find the length of a character pointer in 'C'?

With sizeof(char*).

[Al-Burak]

Thanks folks!
The function I was looking for is strlen().

TIA

[roberts.noah]

Neelesh Bodas wrote:

Al-Burak wrote:

How can I find the length of a character pointer in 'C'?

By posting to comp.lang.c

To the OP:

You could have avoided such replies by leaving out the word 'C' in your
question or by replacing it with 'C++'. Since you specified a language
that this group is not about you get smart-ass answers like the above.
However, without having specified the language as something other than
C++ your question would have been totally on-topic.

[bvatsa]

Use strlen()

[major]

Al-Burak wrote:

Thanks folks!
The function I was looking for is strlen().

be careful with strlen, because it counts until a '\0'... the array
could be more longer ;-)

[Ben Pope]

Neelesh Bodas wrote:

Al-Burak wrote:

How can I find the length of a character pointer in 'C'?

By posting to comp.lang.c

sizeof(char*);

length returned is in bytes.

Ben Pope
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[Ben Radford]

Al-Burak wrote:

How can I find the length of a character pointer in 'C'?

TIA

If you mean the length (size would be a more appropriate term) of a
character pointer then just use 'sizeof(char*)'. For the length of a
string pointed to by the character pointer use 'strlen'.