Re: determining size of array of chars

On 23 Ago, 16:51, You're talkin 'bout China Blue Grove
<chine.b...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is an array of strings, not chars. A trick to get the length of an array A
is
        (sizeof A/sizeof A[0])
provided A is actually an array and not a pointer.

In other words, it will not work with my code. Correct?
Said that, the answer is there is no way to get rid of the define in
my code?
.

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