Re: ANSI string from UNICODE app.

From:
"Doug Harrison [MVP]" <dsh@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:59:12 -0500
Message-ID:
<t698d2dhbrgt86ihrua177hp0vmph9jeip@4ax.com>
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:18:10 -0700, "Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000@yahoo.com>
wrote:

I know, I have looked to see how they did it.
My thing was this:

==============================================
#ifdef __cplusplus

    #include <assert.h>

    template <typename T> struct IsPointer {
    inline size_t operator()() { return false; };
    };
    template <typename T> struct IsPointer<T*> {
    inline size_t operator()() { return true; };
    };

    template <typename T>
    inline size_t COUNTOF( const T &t ) {
        assert ( !IsPointer<T>()() );
        return sizeof(t)/sizeof(t[0]);
    }

#else // __cplusplus

    #define COUNTOF(a) (sizeof(a)/sizeof(a[0]))

#endif // __cplusplus
==============================================


Here's yet another way that exploits array references, which like the MS
approach, rejects pointers without using assert:

template<typename T, size_t n>
inline size_t ArraySizef(T (&array)[n])
{
   return n;
}

One difference between this method (and yours) and the MS approach is the
latter yields a true compile-time constant that can be used (say) in an
array declaration as the array size.

--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP

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