Re: about string and character

Joe Wright said:

Willem wrote:

<snip>

Doesn't strlen return the index of the first '\0' in a string ? :-)

No. 'size_t strlen(const char *s);' returns an unsigned integer count of
the number of characters before the terminating nul.

How does that result differ from the index of the first '\0' in a string?

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