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Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>
> On 2012-05-04, Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> wrote:
> > The null character isn't a character
> > which is in the string. By definition of a C string,
> > a C string cannot contain
> > the null character.
>
> Sorry; that's wrong! I was staring at the definition in C99,
> and somehow read
> that as "the terminating null character is *not* considered
> part of the string"; but the word "not" is not there.
>
> (Of course; why would such text even be included
> other than to give a special
> exception to the definition of a string.)
Such text in the definition of strchr, would be included
to remind you of how a string is actually defined.
ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (E)
7. Library
7.1 Introduction
7.1.1 Definitions of terms
1 A string is a contiguous sequence of characters
terminated by
and including the first null character.
--
pete
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strchr with its second argument = 0 Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-05-04 20:37 +0200
Re: strchr with its second argument = 0 Ralf Damaschke <rwspam@gmx.de> - 2012-05-04 18:45 +0000
Re: strchr with its second argument = 0 Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-05-04 19:49 +0000
Re: strchr with its second argument = 0 Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-05-04 19:53 +0000
Re: strchr with its second argument = 0 pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-05-04 19:31 -0400
Re: strchr with its second argument = 0 Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-05-05 02:22 +0000
Re: strchr with its second argument = 0 pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-05-04 19:39 -0400
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