Re: is it possible to point to a slice of an array without malloc or VLAs?

On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 09:13:39 +0100, Phil Ashby wrote:
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To answer the specific question, I would use pointer arithmetic,
provided there is no intention to modify values, ie:
 
char **slice = argv + config->optind;
 
thus slice now points at the appropriate part of argv and can be indexed
or dereferenced / incremented to access elements.

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Thank you, that works great. I now do that plus store the slice's size using:
argc - optind

I tried to get the size using

#define ARRAYSIZE(a) (&(a)[1] - (a))

char **folders = argv + optind;
int num_folders = argc - optind;
int size = ARRAYSIZE(folders);
printf("%d %d\n", num_folders, size);

but size was always 1.