how to find number of elements in a Circular Queue

Question

how do i find the number of items in a circular queue?

|front - rear| doesnt always work.

is there one equation to know how many element is in a cir

Answer 1

 Pointer1 = head; // (your node)
 count = 0;


 if( Pointer1 != NULL )
 {
   count = 1;
   Pointer2 = Pointer1->Next;
   while ( Pointer2 != NULL && Pointer2 != Pointer1 )
   {
     count++;
     Pointer2 = Pointer2->Next;
   }
 }

 return count;