so, there is no way to know in advance the length of a string unless you have an identifier, or constant for it. thanks for the tip andrew. Im sure it will be useful someday.
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Andrew Agno wrote: > J.A.Serralheiro writes: > > right. It should be strlen(buff ) > > Just a word of warning: strlen can be a problem if the buffer is not > filled with stuff that you can validate--ie: if buff isn't a NULL > terminated string, then it looks for the NULL byte off the end of the > buffer, which can lead to much strangeness, and probably core dumps, > later on. So even if you get a length using strlen, you should make > sure it doesn't go beyond the end of the buffer. > > Andrew. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >