In article <4f82d3e2$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2...@news.patriot.net>, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamt...@library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote:
> >Null terminated strings have simplified all kids of text > >manipulation, lexical scanning, and data storage/communication > >code resulting in immeasurable savings over the years. > > Yeah, especially code that needs to deal with lengths and nulls. It's > great for buffer overruns too. I once worked on a C++ project that used a string class which kept a length count, but also allocated one extra byte and stuck a null at the end of every string. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
