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From: Vadiraj <vadiraj.cs@gmail.com>
To: Vikas S <vikas_soolapani@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Variable to sizeof function.
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 20:30:16 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6eee1c405071508004e8e5200@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050715140207.78402.qmail@web31901.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Vikas,

On 7/15/05, Vikas S <vikas_soolapani@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I want to find out the size of a structure which the user will give as an argument
> as follows.
> 
> #include <>  -- All includes..
> ..
> main(int arc, char *argv[])

   argv is a charecter pointer . You cannot pass struct * as an
arguement to main.

> {
> printf("Size of structure %s is: %d\n", argv[1], sizeof(struct argv[1]));

use strlen(argv[1]) to find the lenght of the string.

-- 
cheers,
Vadi

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-15 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-15 14:02 Variable to sizeof function Vikas S
2005-07-15 15:00 ` Vadiraj [this message]
2005-07-15 15:16   ` Rechberger Markus
2005-07-15 17:53     ` Vikas S
2005-07-15 22:35       ` Steve Graegert
2005-07-16  6:44         ` Vikas S
2005-07-16  7:04           ` Steve Graegert
2005-07-16  8:26           ` Steven Smith
2005-07-16 14:30           ` Eric Bambach
2005-07-17 16:27           ` Vadiraj
2005-08-01  6:10             ` Query in C avinash pawar
2005-08-01  6:44               ` Steve Graegert

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