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Top Forums Programming How to get the sizeof char pointer Post 302322207 by SamRoj on Wednesday 3rd of June 2009 06:00:36 AM
Old 06-03-2009
How to get the sizeof char pointer

The below code throws the error, since the size of x = 19 is not passed to the cstrCopy function.

using namespace std;
static void cstrCopy(char *x, const char*y);
int main ()
{
char x[19];
const string y = "UNIX FORUM";
cstrCopy(x,y.c_str());
return 0;
}
void cstrCopy(char *x, const char *y)
{
if(strlen(y) >= sizeof(x)) {
throw errorException;
}
strncpy(x, y, sizeof(x));
}


How to pass the size of char pointer to a function.?
Please help.
 

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