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From: "kcorey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> When you're talking about trailing spaces at the end of a string, why
> not *always* type:
>
> str[index] = '\0';

Personally, I don't even bother with that, preferring

 str[index] = 0;

If the actual binary value of the trailing character isn't zero ('\0' != 0)
then one of the most famous C idioms wouldn't work:

 while (*dest++ = *source++)
     ;


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