[getting old punched cards read]

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Fri Apr 24 19:39:12 1998

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.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York

Received on Fri Apr 24 1998 - 19:39:12 BST