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From: Vadiraj <vadiraj.cs@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Variable to sizeof function.
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 20:30:16 +0530
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To: Vikas S <vikas_soolapani@yahoo.com>
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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