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[Roy Smith]

In article <4f82d3e2$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice at news.patriot.net>,
 Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap at library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote:

> >Null terminated strings have simplified all kids of text
> >manipulation, lexical scanning, and data storage/communication 
> >code resulting in immeasurable savings over the years.
> 
> Yeah, especially code that needs to deal with lengths and nulls. It's
> great for buffer overruns too.

I once worked on a C++ project that used a string class which kept a 
length count, but also allocated one extra byte and stuck a null at the 
end of every string.