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What's the rationale for null terminated strings?
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J3L2404
on Dec 12, 2010
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iwr
on Dec 12, 2010
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The question should be: "Why doesn't C have a string data type?" C only considers a pointer to a char, it's the programmers' fault they treat this structure like a string.
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