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Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling?

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On 2022-09-24 at 19:22, JiiPee wrote:
> I have done C++ since 1997. I personally do not understand why use C if 
> C++ is extented C and has more in it (and thats why I immediately 
> swiched from C to C++ when I found C++).
> 
> But language-fight aside :) .. I have a serious/honest question:
> What is the best way to represend a string in C language? How do best C 
> programmers represend a string?
> 
> Because I am worried that that the length of the string is not 
> "protected" as there is no private in C language.
> 
> In C++ it is well protected and safe something like this:
> 
> class String {
> // all access functions
> 
> private:
> int m_lenght;
> };
> 
> So, it is basically impossible to have a wrong lenght value for a string.
> Am I right that C programmers do it something like:
> 
> struct String {
> char* data;
> int lenght;
> };
> 
> but obviously somebody might put: lenght = 99999999999, and then its 
> going bad....
> 
> How do C programmers make string safe that the above problem does not 
> occur (that the lenght of the string goes wrong)?

By not storing the length separately? You just have to call strlen each 
time you need to know the length.

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How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? JiiPee <kerrttuPoistaTama11@gmail.com> - 2022-09-24 20:22 +0300
  Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Bo Persson <bo@bo-persson.se> - 2022-09-24 21:00 +0200
  Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Gawr Gura <gawrgura@mail.hololive.com> - 2022-09-24 12:29 -0700
    Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? JiiPee <kerrttuPoistaTama11@gmail.com> - 2022-09-25 00:47 +0300
      Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-09-25 08:50 +0000
        Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? JiiPee <kerrttuPoistaTama11@gmail.com> - 2022-09-25 13:37 +0300
        Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? JiiPee <kerrttuPoistaTama11@gmail.com> - 2022-09-25 13:38 +0300
        Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-25 13:34 +0200
          Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-25 17:00 +0200
          Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-09-25 15:14 +0000
      Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Gawr Gura <gawrgura@mail.hololive.com> - 2022-09-25 09:22 -0700
        Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? JiiPee <kerrttuPoistaTama11@gmail.com> - 2022-09-26 01:01 +0300
          Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-09-25 19:02 -0400
            Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? JiiPee <kerrttuPoistaTama11@gmail.com> - 2022-09-26 07:27 +0300
              Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-09-26 15:19 +0000
                Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? JiiPee <kerrttuPoistaTama11@gmail.com> - 2022-09-26 21:53 +0300
                Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-09-26 20:42 -0400
                Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2022-09-26 17:54 -0700
                Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-09-27 09:36 +0000
                Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-09-27 15:28 +0100
          Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Gawr Gura <gawrgura@mail.hololive.com> - 2022-09-25 16:34 -0700
            Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? JiiPee <kerrttuPoistaTama11@gmail.com> - 2022-09-26 07:32 +0300
    Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-09-26 08:33 +0000
      Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> - 2022-09-26 12:18 +0300
        Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-09-26 09:47 +0000
      Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Gawr Gura <gawrgura@mail.hololive.com> - 2022-09-26 07:40 -0700
  Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> - 2022-09-24 23:04 +0300
    Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? JiiPee <kerrttuPoistaTama11@gmail.com> - 2022-09-25 00:44 +0300
  Re: How do C -programmers do reliable string handling? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2022-09-26 02:03 -0700

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