total space of a string (was: hardcoded constants)

[George Kyriazis]

In article <1827 at solo11.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>barmar at think.COM (Barry Margolin) writes:
>\1) When I've done this in other languages, I've used something like
>\strlen("/") instead of the 2.  Unfortunately, in C I'd still have to
>\say "+1", ....
>
>How about the following?
>
>	sizeof "/"

"/" is a pointer to a string containing a '/' and a '\0'.  Therefore
it seems to me that sizeof "/" will return the same value as 
sizeof( char * ).  
Comments??


  George Kyriazis
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  kyriazis at ss0.cicg.rpi.edu
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