Top "Null-terminated" questions

Are all char arrays automatically null-terminated?

Probably I'm just too dump for googling, but I always thought char arrays get only null terminated by an literal …

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When/Why is '\0' necessary to mark end of an (char) array?

So I just read an example of how to create an array of characters which represent a string. The null-character \0 …

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Are char * argv[] arguments in main null terminated?

So I'm wondering if command line parameters are always null terminated? Google seems to say yes, and compiling on GCC …

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How to print a string using printf without it printing the trailing newline

I'm trying to print some strings using printf() but they are null terminated having trailing newline and that messes with …

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Null character in strings

Consider this string: var s = "A\0Z"; Its length is 3, as given by s.length. Using console.log you can …

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Can a std::string contain embedded nulls?

For regular C strings, a null character '\0' signifies the end of data. What about std::string, can I …

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strstr() for a string that is NOT null-terminated

How do I do the in-place equivalent of strstr() for a counted string (i.e. not null-terminated) in C?

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How can a file contain null bytes?

How is it possible that files can contain null bytes in operating systems written in a language with null-terminating strings (…

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Trying to remove the last character in a char array in C

So I wrote the following method: void removeEndingColon(char *charArrayWithColon) { // remove ':' from variableName size_t indexOfNullTerminator = strlen(charArrayWithColon); …

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Why null-terminated strings? Or: null-terminated vs. characters + length storage

I'm writing a language interpreter in C, and my string type contains a length attribute, like so: struct String { char* …

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