On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Marcel Weiher <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 16, 2009, at 18:59 , Michael Ash wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:47 PM, WT <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> since he'll be dealing with the string's raw bytes, won't Miles have to >>> manually add a null byte to terminate the search string? >> >> The strnstr() function takes a length, and can thus be safely used on >> buffers which contain no NUL byte. > > As far as I can tell it only takes one length, and that's for the string to > be searched, so he will have to NULL-terminate the search string (which is > what WT was talking about as far as I can tell). Well that would be the > case if strnstr() were actually useful for him, which I guess it isn't.
Yes, my bad. I thought he meant the string to be searched. I like the terminology "needle" and "haystack" for these things. Hard to get mixed up that way, and it seems to be nearly standard usage. Anyway, carry on. Mike _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
