Is there a way to get the length of any Array? I figured out how to do it for arrays of type "char" (Strings) but I''m finding it harder for other types.

If it is a statically sized array, such as
int foo[100];

you can use
sizeof(foo)/sizeof(int)

To calculate the number of elements in the array.

It''s not static.

I''m not sure if I''ll actually need it but it''s still something I''d like to know.

If you have just a pointer to the first element of the array, there is no way of knowing the array''s length.

quote: Original post by jaxson
If it is a statically sized array, such as
int foo[100];

you can use
sizeof(foo)/sizeof(int)

To calculate the number of elements in the array.

alternatively:

sizeof(foo)/sizeof(foo[0])

In C#, arrays are also object. All arrrays are derived from System.Array (if I''m not mistaken), which contains the Length property. So in C# to get the length of the array you can do like this:

using System;public class ArrayLengthDemo{ public static void Main() {  int x = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());  int[] intArray = new int[x];  Console.WriteLine("Length is" + intArray.Length); }} 

in C or C++ (also doable in C#), like the other guy said, is by dividing the total size of the array by the element size, eg:

int length = sizeof(intArray) / sizeof(intArray[0]);

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C# looks alot like Java, I should probably look into it some more.

Thanks for all the replies everyone. I appreciate the help.

That''s why we advocate std::vector.

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Thanks to Kylotan for the idea!

No, you really shouldn''t look into c#.
What good is a proprietary programming
language? How stable is a language whose
"standard" is defined by a single corporate
entity?

C# == VB++

It''s Microsoft?

Well they''re gonna rule over everything anyway.