Erik wrote: > Tom St Denis skrev: > >> The only way a function can know the length of an array pointed to by a >> pointer is by the caller passing that information to the function. >> >> Probably the best way if you want to clear up the clutter is to use a >> struct which has both a pointer and length (maybe stored as an int). >> >> > Length as an int?!? Sounds weird. What are negative values supposed to > mean? It has to be an unsigned type, maybe size_t. > Your head won't explode if you use an int to count something. Especially, since we all verify our code anyways right? That said, size_t would probably be more appropriate, but since it was 6am and I was answering a relatively newbie question anyways, I didn't want to confuse the matter. Tom
