Top "Null-terminated" questions

A string that ends with (and does not include) a "null" (ASCII 0) byte, as used by the C language

Will std::string always be null-terminated in C++11?

In a 2008 post on his site, Herb Sutter states the following: There is an active proposal to tighten this up …

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Why do strings in C need to be null terminated?

Just wondering why this is the case. I'm eager to know more about low level languages, and I'm only into …

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