I'm trying to learn some basic C++ and the moment I started to think I got a grasp of all those pointers I stumbled across this problem:
int sizeOf(string texts[]) {
return sizeof(texts);
}
int main() {
string texts[] = {"apple", "banana", "orange", "watermelon"};
cout << sizeof(texts) << endl;
cout << sizeOf(texts) << endl;
}
and this function returns
128
8
My question is: what is happening when I pass this array as an argument? Why suddenly C++ forgets that this is an array? I have tried to dereference it inside a method (return sizeof(*texts)) but it returned 32 instead which is the size of one string element, not a whole array. Is it possible to do what I want to do? Where am I mistaken?
