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From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Finding NULL byte in a long
Message-ID: <198@nazgul.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 90 21:05:25 GMT
References: <1990Dec5.033206.10463@nimbus3.uucp>
Reply-To: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Organization: Zortech, Seattle
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In article <1990Dec5.033206.10463@nimbus3.uucp> djs@nimbus3.UUCP (Doug) writes:
/I know this has been on the net before, since I thought I saved it,
/but can't find it now.  Anyway, could someone tell me what the
/C expression is that tells you if a long has a NULL byte in it.
/This is without masking each byte and testing it for 0.  It is very
/clever and non-obvious.  Thanks.

Hmmm, how about:
	p = memchr(&x,0,sizeof(x));