Re: Pascal vs C style string ?

<nandu@cs.clemson.edu> wrote:
> One hack around that could be to encode the zero byte as
> zero-zero bytes. The decoding routine identifies consecutive
> zero-zero bytes as the encoding of a single legal zero byte and
> understands that a singly occuring zero byte is actually the end of
> string marker. I believe this hack is used in transmitting packets




How convenient. That reminds me of the ugly hacks due to ms-dos's
encoding of end-of-line as 'CR-LF'. The encoding makes sense, but the
fact that it's a two-caracter symbol is a pain: length related
operations become really annoying (especially for seeks) etc...
If it's totally hidden, fine. But if such things appear anywhere else
than in a library, it's a hack.


Stefan
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