> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Michael Sullivan > To: [email protected] <mailto:c-prog%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 8:49 AM > Subject: [c-prog] How many elements in the array? > > The thread on returning arrays from a function raises a question to my > mind. Is there a way to determine how many elements are in the array > without explicitly passing the number of elements to the function? I > believe that in Java this is possible, but is it in C++? This is not a > homework question; just idle curiousity... >
[email protected] wrote: > > sizeof(array)/sizeof(array_type) > > Thanks, > Tyler Littlefield I think that the question was asking if the called function could determine the size of the array, not the calling function. I think that the answer is that the called function cannot determine the size of the array by itself, the size needs to be passed in.
