strlen does not equal string length

[MK27]

Under what conditions could this code:

filelen=strlen(word+1);
file=malloc(filelen);
strcpy(file,word);		
printf("filelen: %d, %s\n", filelen,file);

produce this output:

Example 1: filelen: 7, cynosure
Example 2: filelen: 4, twalk

"file" is a char pointer, "filelen" is a short int.

[King Mir]

filelen=strlen(word+1);

For word not being an empty string longer than one, this is the same as:

filelen=strlen(word)-1;

You are incrementing the char pointer, when you probably want to increment the result of strlen().

[MK27]

filelen=strlen(word+1);

For word not being an empty string longer than one, this is the same as:

filelen=strlen(word)-1;

You are incrementing the char pointer, when you probably want to increment the result of strlen().

Exactly right.