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From: stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir)
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Subject: Re: Need strnlen().
Message-ID: <797@dcl-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 18:02:28 EST
Article-I.D.: dcl-cs.797
Posted: Mon Nov 18 18:02:28 1985
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References: <207@a.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University.
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In article <207@a.sei.cmu.edu> dlc@a.sei.cmu.edu (Daryl Clevenger) writes:
>One should never allow a character array to not have a null terminating byte.

This is absolute rubbish.  If I want character arrays without a terminating
null byte then I'm quite entitled to do that.  In fact, I *have* to do that as
I'm writing interface routines for ADA.  "strnlen" is to "strlen" as "strncmp"
is to "strcmp".  I've written the routine myself now, but I just think that it
should be part of the standard library, that's all.
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