2011/6/1 Sebastien Lelong <[email protected]>: > But being devil's advocate, I could use strings containing NULL char, but > this doesn't mean end of string.
What would be the meaning of NULL within a 'string of characters'? In other words: would you consider this still to be a string? I think this would be data-records with field-separators and/or non-ascii content. There are some options to deal with this: - make the check for a null-char optional (you can use it with NULL, but loose the support of strings that are shorter than the array size) - make the termination-value configurable (this is not a fix, it is moving the issue) - use an escape sequence to deal with all 256 possible values while having a termination char too (works great, but has quite some impact on all supplying routines). - use a length variable - either separate or on the first location of the string. (again, works great but has impact on all supplying routines). Take your pick ;) Joep -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en.
