On Monday, 22 June 2020 at 04:08:10 UTC, Denis wrote:
The terminating null character was one of the reasons I thought strings were different from char arrays. Now I know better.
String **literals** have a terminating null character, to help with integrating with C functions. But this null character will disappear when manipulating strings.
You cannot assume that a function parameter of type `string` will have a terminating null character, but calling `printf` with a string literal is fine:
printf("foobar\n"); // this will work since string literals have have a terminating null character
-- /Jacob Carlborg
