I didn't realise you were talking specifically about *lists* of strings represented by a successing of zero-terminated strings.
I could probably gen up a healthy rant about the hateful way people mix up wire formats, storage formats, and internal formats, but I don't feel up to that much hate this morning. :)
Plus, I've kicked myself in the head over it too. Don't you hate coming across code you wrote years ago and wishing you had a temporal bitchslap machine so you could knock some sense into yourself?
