Is there a way to introspect an array's size?

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Published on 2010-05-22T18:13:55Z Indexed on 2010/05/22 18:20 UTC
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In C++ given an array like this:

unsigned char bogus1[] = {
  0x2e, 0x2e, 0x2e, 0x2e
};

Is there a way to introspect bogus1 to find out is is four characters long?

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