Re: Null-terminated strings: the final analysis.

Joe Wright <joewwright@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I believe strings can contain tabs, and other things that don't print but I
agree strings cannot contain the NUL character.

.... by a trivial consequence of C's definition of a string, no less.

Further, a text file is corrupted by the NUL character in a line.

Only because C strings can't represent lines of text containing a zero
byte. Using this to justify C's representative inadequacy is circular.

-- [mdw]
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