24 Apr
1998
24 Apr
'98
8:39 p.m.
On Apr 24, 17:10, Bob Withers wrote:
There's a big difference between a NUL string and
a NULL pointer.
Yes, but that's not what I wrote. A null string is an empty string (no
characters). A NUL string would be a string with a single ASCII NUL
character in it -- and rather hard to manipulate in C, since NULs mark the
ends. Nevertheless, they do exist, though that wasn't what I was talking
about.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
24 Apr
24 Apr
8:32 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Pete Turnbull once stated:
On Apr 24, 17:10, Bob Withers wrote:
And what I was talking about was NULL pointers, which strcpy() doesn't
like.
-spc (and it's a NULL POINTER that strtok() will return, not a NULL
string.)
There's a big difference between a NUL string
and a NULL pointer.
Yes, but that's not what I wrote. A null string is an empty string (no
characters). A NUL string would be a string with a single ASCII NUL
character in it -- and rather hard to manipulate in C, since NULs mark the
ends. Nevertheless, they do exist, though that wasn't what I was talking
about.
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