Greg Wooledge (2018-04-03): > When you're trying to display one on a screen, or print one on paper.
With just the length? You will not get anything done. To properly display a string, you need to handle ligatures, right-to-left, kerning, etc. The length of the string is barely relevant. > When you've been asked to find the longest/shortest string from a list. Why would that be useful? > When you've been asked to sort a list of strings by length. Why would that be useful? > Or in other words, basically every time you do anything with the string > at all other than blindly byte-copying it to a different place in memory. No, the length of the string is hardly relevant, and when it is it is not enough anyway. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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