Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: hardcoded constants Message-ID: <2478@ficc.uu.net> Date: 17 Dec 88 00:54:17 GMT References: <1988Dec8.173158.11839@utzoo.uucp> <846@starfish.Convergent.COM> <33604@think.UUCP> Organization: SCADA Lines: 9 In article <33604@think.UUCP>, barmar@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 How about sizeof "/"? Or does that return sizeof(char *)? -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Work: uunet.uu.net!ficc!peter, peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Home: bigtex!texbell!sugar!peter, peter@sugar.uu.net.