Re: function

santosh wrote:
Bill Cunningham wrote:

Earlier in this
post I wanted to write zeros to a file and found out the proper use
was with the string terminating character '\0' which is a byte with
all the bits turned off.

Not necessarily. It's just a byte with value zero.

Bill is right, you are wrong.

5.2 Environmental considerations
5.2.1 Character sets

A byte with all bits set to 0, called the null character,
shall exist in the basic execution character set;
it is used to terminate a character string literal.

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pete
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