Re: Attempting to read past end of strings

From: AlanGLLoyd (alanglloyd_at_aol.com)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: 29 Mar 2004 07:12:50 GMT

In article <40678acc$0$31907$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, John Tserkezis
<jt@techniciansyndrome.org.invalid> writes:

> A string can be any length, including zero.

A string contains a concatenation of a number of characters of any length
including zero. The length of the string itself depends on the language
implementation and is usually greater than the count of the contained
characters.

Colloquially the term "string" refers only to the characters, but don't lets
forget what a string really is. Nor confuse the colloquial use of the word with
the strict definition.

Alan Lloyd
alanglloyd@aol.com

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