Programming-Idioms

Edit summary for version 75 by georgn:
[C] The idiom was asking to assign string length to another variable - not provide an implementation of strlen

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2019-12-01, 11:46:00

2020-04-28, 22:06:37

Idiom #169 String length

Assign to integer n the number of characters of string s.

This can be different from the number of bytes of s.

Assign to integer n the number of characters of string s.

This can be different from the number of bytes of s.

size characters chars number runes

size characters chars number runes

#include <stdlib.h>

#include <string.h>

size_t	ft_strlen(const char *str)
{
	int	count;

	count = 0;
	while (str[count])
		count++;
	return (count);
}

size_t n = strlen(s);

Assumes s is actually a string

https://github.com/iiskakov/42-libft/blob/master/libft.h

https://github.com/iiskakov/42-libft/blob/master/libft.h

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