On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 12:09 AM Ángel <an...@16bits.net> wrote: > > On 2022-02-07 at 11:55 +0100, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote: > > > > however my solution still stays > > > > you just use memory locations instead of c strings > > > > and those entries in memory are of course of known length, before > > > > setting and all is fine > > > > > > "Your" solution is decades old. Everyone knows how Pascal-style > > > strings work. This is not cutting-edge computer science. > > > > i dunno what pascal strings are, sorry > > Pascal strings refers to strings prefixed with their length: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_(computer_science)#Length-prefixed > > Basically, what you were proposing.
i see, thank you for good explaintion ( in your words not url ) > > > And as Veláquez said, it's ingenuous propose a solution nobody else > asked for, expecting others to spend the effort of actually > implementing it (plus the critics of their result, such as a limitation > on the string length, or of wasted memory for every pointer). well as im an outsuder i agree else, i can just say, rather keep the nulls you kept the \1'en and \xff :)) ( yeah not you, the c library language or whatever ) greets
