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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Question on a C++ string
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 13:57:20 -0800
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T <T@invalid.invalid> writes:
> On 2019-12-29 01:45, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:
>> [...]
>>>  From a C perspective, a string is a pointer to the first char in a
>>> sequence, and the string ends with a char 0 marker.  That's probably
>>> the one your Windows API wants, if it's a C API like someone wrote.
>>
>> No, from a C perspective "A string is a contiguous sequence of
>> characters terminated by and including the first null character."
>
> Do I need the chr(0) at the end?

I presume that by "chr(0)" you mean the char value '\0', also known as
the null character.  Your meaning is reasonably clear, but there is no
"chr" function in C or C++.

Yes, by definition a "string" includes the terminating null character.
If there's no null character, it's not a string.

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