Sujet : Re: Implicit String-Literal Concatenation
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.lang.cDate : 07. Mar 2024, 22:08:48
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On Mon, 04 Mar 2024 20:55:28 -0800, Keith Thompson wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
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On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:14:52 -0800, Keith Thompson wrote:
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"A *string* is a contiguous sequence of characters terminated by and
including the first null character."
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So how come strlen(3) does not include the null?
Because the *length of a string* is by definition "the number of bytes
preceding the null character".
So the “string” itself includes the null character, but its “length” does not?