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From: woods@hao.UUCP
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Subject: Re: sizeof "string"
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Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 16:04:34 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 27 16:04:34 1984
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  Of course it isn't a good idea to use sizeof on strings! It should properly
return the size of a char pointer. That is why "strlen" is in the stdio
library!

		    GREG
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