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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: total space of a string (was: hardcoded constants)
Message-ID: <1827@solo11.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 19 Dec 88 16:54:44 GMT
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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
\say "+1", which I'd then want to comment with /* leave room for the
\trailing null */, since I don't think there's an expression that will
\return the total space taken up by a string.

How about the following?

	sizeof "/"
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fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, FNDELAY):          |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:
      let's go weepin' in the corner! |maart@cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart