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Re: Replacing NULLS with space (C strings)

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On 2012-02-10, Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> wrote:
> Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:
>> However the strings in your C program may not be nul-terminated.
>
> Then they're not strings, and calling them that will cause confusion.

No, it won't. If I have a  "struct string" in my C program, nobody in their
right mind assumes that this still refers to a null-terminated array of char,
without looking inside the struct and the surrounding functions.

What are you going to complain about next? That we should not use the term
"header" in packet processing code because that refers to the units processed
by the #include directive?

> 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.

That unambiguous name is "character string".

You do not get to rename the fundamental concepts in computer science, sorry.

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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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