Re: [v3] Fix stringbuf handling of NUL characters

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:50:14AM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> writes:
> | Since we're talking about NUL characters in the middle of the data,
> | I would argue that it's a meaningless distinction.
> 
> I don't think so.  Calling c_str() doesn't give the whole characters.

But that's not c_str()'s fault.  Both c_str() and data() simply return a
pointer to the character string.  A second NUL character (which will never
be seen) won't make any difference.

It's just occurred to me that we may be talking about different things
anyhow.  :-)


Phil

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