Re: Counting Characters!!

On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:08:14 +0200
Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> boringly babbled:

Am 16.09.2024 um 18:08 schrieb Muttley@dastardlyhq.com:

On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:55:02 +0200
Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> boringly babbled:

Am 14.09.2024 um 21:41 schrieb Chris Ahlstrom:

DMZ wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>

This simple program will count characters for you!!
>
#include <stdio.h>
>
int main()
{
       printf(" = %d characters", printf("Hello World!"));
>
       return 0;
}

>
Cute.
>

>
Nice, but this counts the characters at compile-time:
>
std::string_view sv( "Hello World!" );
std::cout << sv << " = " << sv.length() << " characters" << endl;

 
So does sizeof("Hello world!");
 

>
But sizeof(string_literal) includes the null-terminating character.

Gosh! Maybe you could do sizeof()-1 then. Just a thought!