30 Aug
2006
30 Aug
'06
10:11 a.m.
How many ways
are there of representing variable length character strings?
And how many have you run into? Off the top of my head, I've seen--on the
MS-DOS/Windows platform the following: byte count+data, word count+data,
data terminated by 00, data terminated by 0a, data terminated by 0d, data
terminated by 1F, and probably a few others that don't occur to me right
off.
Some of the CP/M tools used $ as a string terminator, if I'm remembering
right...