Re: Null-terminated strings: the final analysis.

CBFalconer wrote:
Mark Wooding wrote:
... snip ...
And none of this addresses the major defect of null-terminated
strings, which is that they can't represent strings containing
a zero byte.

Bearing in mind that strings contain only printable characters,
what possible use can you have for a zero byte?

I believe strings can contain tabs, and other things that don't print but I agree strings cannot contain the NUL character. Further, a text file is corrupted by the NUL character in a line.

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Joe Wright
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