in reply to How is perl able to handle the null byte?
To say that "C treats a null byte as the end of a string" is a bit unfair. C barely knows what a "string" is. A large amount of C code, including a great number of standard library functions, work with null-terminated strings. But that doesn't mean you can't write code that treats your own data however you like. Nothing is forcing you to stop at a null; there's just a certain class of pre-written functions that do so by convention. If you know better (because, for example, your string is stored together with its length), then that's fine and well. C only cares about bits and bytes.
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Re^2: How is perl able to handle the null byte?
by Joost (Canon) on Jun 15, 2006 at 21:07 UTC | |
by ChemBoy (Priest) on Jun 15, 2006 at 21:50 UTC |
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