How do you determine the length of an unsigned char*?

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How do you determine the length of an unsigned char*?

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joce picture joce · May 7, 2009

For the actual size of the pointer:

size_t s = sizeof(unsigned char*);

If you want the length of the string:

unsigned char* bla = (unsigned char*)"blabla";
int s = strlen((char*)bla);

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