Re: calculating length of an substring

On Feb 29, 7:06 pm, Martin Ambuhl <mamb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


But your subtraction is a pointer from an int, not a pointer from a
pointer. If you _must_ use an unneccesary cast, use
len = (int)(s - e);
but that means exactly the same thing as the cast-less
len = s - e;


s - e is of type ptrdiff_t, not int.
.

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