theo wrote:
> Because either string could be shorter than len.
>
> strncasecmp() and strncasecmp_l() compare at most len characters.
> ^^^^^^^
>
> "NUL-terminated string" is firmly explaining to people that in C,
> a string is only a string if it ends in a NUL. There's a large
> contingent of folk who don't get it.
As an example of what happens when folks don't get it: [0].
In general, me'd strongly suggest that we speak of an 'array' when it's
not zero-terminated (that again should be redundant information here,
but yeah).
Baai,
--zeurkous.
[0] 'https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Absurd texture name in error message'
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