Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site inuxh.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!inuxh!slb From: slb@inuxh.UUCP (Stephen Browning) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: sizeof "string" Message-ID: <270@inuxh.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 08:46:19 EST Article-I.D.: inuxh.270 Posted: Thu Feb 2 08:46:19 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 15:37:07 EST References: <1623@rlgvax.UUCP> <451@mprvaxa.UUCP> <925@druxy.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Consumer Products Div., Indianapolis Lines: 15 After reading the concise and well referenced explanation of sizeof("Hello\0,world."), I was reminded of a question raised by the people at Ecosoft here in Indy while they were writing their C compiler. Is "Hello\0, world." a string, or is it two strings? Put another way, is '\0' a legal character to embed within a string? Remember, that just because a compiler accepts it, doesn't make it right! Any takers on this one? Stephen L. Browning AT&T CPL inuxh!slb