How do C -programmers do reliable string handling?

From	JiiPee <kerrttuPoistaTama11@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	How do C -programmers do reliable string handling?
Date	2022-09-24 20:22 +0300
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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)?

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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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