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Re: Find size of Array?

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From: Donovan Rebbechi
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 22:22
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On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 20:25:16 GMT, Warren S. Wyght wrote:
>How do I find the size of an Array once the array was created by either
>malloc or new.

You don't. You need to keep track of the size. That's why data structures
like vector and string have fields that keep track of this information.

Of course, if you use vector<> instead of a pointer array, you can just use
the size() method.

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Donovan Rebbechi * http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/ * 
elflord at panix dot com
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Subject: Re: Find size of Array?
Date: 9 Jan 2001 22:22:23 GMT
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