Thread: help with strings

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    help with strings

    I'm writing a program...and I don't fully understand strings and pointers at the moment.

    I'm taking in a sentence from a user using the gets() function.
    How can I determine how long the string is? I declare the string as char string1[80]; But if the user's sentence isn't 80 characters long, is there a function I can use to determine the size? Also, what header file(s) do I need to include.

    Any help would be greatly appreciative.

    Dave ([email protected])

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    strlen - it's in string.h

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    Use strlen() to determine a char string's length:

    strlen(string1)

    #include either <cstring> or <string.h>

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