Size of String Tables

[Blei Stift]

I want to go through a string table (char **str). Every string in it
has a different size. My idea for getting the size was size =
sizeof(str)/sizeof(str[0]). But this doesn't work.

- Blei Stift

 

[Seebs]

I want to go through a string table (char **str). Every string in it
has a different size. My idea for getting the size was size =
sizeof(str)/sizeof(str[0]). But this doesn't work.

Right, because sizeof(char *) is the size of a pointer, not the number of
things pointed to.

You can use strlen() to figure out how long strings are, if these are
actually strings (null-terminated sequences of characters), otherwise,
you are sorta lost -- you can't find out how large an array is just from
a pointer to its first element.

-s