Re: Pascal vs C style string ?

> One hack around that could be to encode the zero byte as
> zero-zero bytes. The decoding routine identifies consecutive


this is a pretty bad hack. not only does it require that you
possibly look beyond your allocated space. it also prevents such
practice as allocating memory and filling it with 0 and then
putting a null-term string in it. now you have "abc\0\0\0\0"
so where is the end? or what is the length?


.....larry
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