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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strings
Message-ID: <4185@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 14 May 89 19:09:58 GMT
References: <2846@tank.uchicago.edu> <5785@cbnews.ATT.COM> <10087@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1989May13.211218.24251@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1989May13.211218.24251@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> You can't, any more than you can improve the equivalent in some other
> languages to get the length of a trailing substring without having to
> go back to the beginning and then subtract.

Not if the string is stored as a length-and-start-address.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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