specifically...

size is the size of one data item, nmemb is the number of data items.

all you really need to worry about is (size * nmemb)

That's how many bytes total there are.

Hope that helps!

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Jim Lloyd <jim_at_silvertailsystems.com>wrote:

> Yes. The function signature is the same signature as the stdio fwrite
> function, allowing you to use fwrite as the callback function if all you
> want to do is capture the response to a file.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:43 AM, Rogues <roguestd_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Quick question, in this function size_t write_data(char *ptr, size_t
>> size, size_t nmemb, void *userdata), what does size and nmemb represent?
>> nmemb probably means number of members, and does size refer to the size of
>> each member?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rogues
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