Perhaps, I should either thank you for agreeing, or State that I agree with you.
Either way: It'll work.

--- On Wed, 9/1/10, Rob Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Rob Richardson <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [c-prog] Re: Can a function return an array of 4 pointers?
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 10:09 AM







 



  


    
      
      
      That's what I meant by using a marker.



RobR 



-----Original Message-----

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf

Of benjamin_cail_scott

Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 11:06 AM

To: [email protected]

Subject: [c-prog] Re: Can a function return an array of 4 pointers?



You can also have an unbroken array: That is no nulls until you reach

the end of the array.  You will have to enforce that through programming

however.



--- In [email protected], "Rob Richardson" <rob.richard...@...>

wrote:

>

> But you need some way to know how big the array is: some marker, like 

> 0 at the end of a string, or a count of the number of elements in the 

> array, which would mean you'd return a structure (or class) that looks



> something like this:

> 

> struct CountedArray

> {

>       int numberOfElements

>       MyType* pStartOfElements;

> }

> 

> Or you need some guarantee that the function will only return 

> four-element arrays.

> 

> RobR

>



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