Backslash zero delimiter '\0'

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bancer picture bancer · Jun 17, 2011 · Viewed 30.6k times · Source

I have seen '\0' to be used as a delimiter in mixed binary files (UTF8 strings + binary data). Could anyone explain what '\0' means or point to a good place to study?

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kabuko picture kabuko · Jun 17, 2011

It's the null character; more info in this Wikipedia article.

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