strlen() also just looks for the ''\0'' chances are good that it''s nothing more than

    size_t strlen(char *s) {  size_t len = 0;  while(*s++) len++;  return len;}    

though there is a rep ???? assembly memonic that it may use. Regardless, the next binary ''\0'' may be a long way off, except of course, for every single time you or your testers run it.

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Nope, it's computed at runtime, but *array just points to the first element of an array, whose size the function returns.

sizeof is compiler time, not runtime. Try this program:

        template<int N>class Test{};int main(int argc, char* argv[]){	Test<sizeof(int)> test;	return 0;}        

A template parameter needs to be know at compile time so that the correct template can be instantiated. If sizeof was a runtime function, this program wouldn't compile.

Edited by - Wilka on August 23, 2000 1:36:25 PM

Outch, perhaps I was too tired when I wrote about strlen()...
It would only add a \0 if there already had been one
Yesh, sizeof(ConfigLoaderMessageString) - 1 is right.

-Markus-

Thnaks guys I ended up taking Kylotan''s advice. I just lie to strlen. I guess this on confused me as I''ve been doing a load of sockets coding recently and getting the sizes back from structs etc...