Find the size of a string pointed by a pointer

Question

#include 

int main ()
{
    char *ptr = \"stackoverflow\"

}

Is there any way to find the length of stackoverflow pointed by ptr, a

Answer 1

Purely using pointers you can use pointer arithmetic:

int strLen(char *s)
{
    int *p = s;
    while(*p !=’\0’)
    {
        p++;  /* increase the address until the end */
    }
    Return p – s; /* Subtract the two addresses, end - start */
}