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Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings)

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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:
> On Feb 10, 12:22 am, pete <pfil...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>> By definition, a string includes a null character.
>>
>> ISO/IEC 9899:201x Committee Draft — April 12, 2011 N1570
>> 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.
>>
> In ANSI C terminology. That's so that they can use the term "string"
> in describing library functions without constantly having to specify
> that it must be nul-terminated.
> However the strings in your C program may not be nul-terminated.

Then they're not strings, and calling them that will cause confusion.
They might well be some data structure that acts like a string in a
more general sense, but then there should be an unambiguous name for it.

And so far, we have no idea what kind of data structure the OP is
dealing with, other than an array of characters.

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Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) peter <pc722@nospam.mail.com.br> - 2012-02-09 20:19 +0000
  Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-02-09 15:46 -0500
  Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) Anders Wegge Keller <wegge@wegge.dk> - 2012-02-09 22:04 +0100
    Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-02-09 16:15 -0500
  Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2012-02-09 21:16 +0000
    Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-02-09 13:29 -0800
      Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-02-09 13:29 -0800
    Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-02-09 19:22 -0500
      Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-02-09 16:36 -0800
        Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-02-09 17:27 -0800
          Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-02-10 02:05 +0000
            Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-02-10 05:43 -0800
        Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 00:27 -0500
    Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2012-02-10 11:42 -0500
      Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2012-02-10 16:51 +0000
    Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) "christian.bau" <christian.bau@cbau.wanadoo.co.uk> - 2012-02-14 14:48 -0800
  Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-02-09 13:22 -0800
  Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-02-09 14:41 -0800
  Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2012-02-10 11:48 -0500
  Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-02-10 11:08 -0800
    Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings) Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 22:36 -0500

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