What's the rationale for null terminated strings?

Posted by J3L2404 on Sunday December 12, 2010 @10:05AM
from the stackoverflow.com dept.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4418708/whats-the-rationale-for-null-terminated-strings

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Re:What's the rationale for null terminated strings? by iwr on Sunday December 12, 2010 @11:49AM (#1997321)

The question should be: "Why doesn't C have a string data type?" C only considers a pointer to a char, it's the programmers' fault they treat this structure like a string.

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