Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: hardcoded constants
Message-ID: <2484@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 18 Dec 88 05:42:12 GMT
References: <1988Dec8.173158.11839@utzoo.uucp> <846@starfish.Convergent.COM> <735@auspex.UUCP>
Organization: SCADA
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In article <735@auspex.UUCP>, guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
> >How about sizeof "/"? Or does that return sizeof(char *)?
> 
> No, it returns the number of bytes in the anonymous character array that
> "/" is.... [Which is 1+#chars, since the null is included]

#define STRLEN(s) (sizeof s - 1)
#define NULLEN 1

> 	strlen(a) + sizeof "/" + strlen(b) + sizeof "/" + strlen(c)

	strlen(a) + STRLEN("/") + strlen(b) + STRLEN("/") +strlen(c) + NULLEN
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