On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 22:57 +0000, Daniel Taylor wrote: > Silly question: when did sizeof("string") get changed to be anything > other than the size of the pointer ("string" is, after all, an array > of characters)? It is since K&R times that way. If you do not know the difference between a pointer and an array (and these are vastly different), go learn something new about C. Bernd -- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx LUGA : http://www.luga.at