It turns out there's a new function strlen S-T-R-L-E-N that you probably have not used yet called strlen, S-T-R-L-E-N, programmers early on and still like to be succinct but communicates sufficiently what they mean.

结果这里有个新的函数,你可能没有使用过，叫做，早期的和现在的程序员喜欢简洁地,但是能充分的传达他们的意思。

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Well, simply with the * notation at least on the way in when you declare the function called swap, you simply say this is not going to take an int and another int because that's useless.

好的，简单说，当你声明一个函数调用swap函数时,使用*符号，你可以简单说，这不能使用一个int数和另外一个int数,因为那是无效的。

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