Finding length of array inside a function [duplicate]

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There is no ‘built-in’ way to determine the length inside the function. However you pass arr, sizeof(arr) will always return the pointer size. So the best way is to pass the number of elements as a seperate argument. Alternatively you could have a special value like 0 or -1 that indicates the end (like it is \0 in strings, which are just char []).
But then of course the ‘logical’ array size was sizeof(arr)/sizeof(int) - 1

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