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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: embedded NULs in strings
Message-ID: <9949@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 87 22:46:11 GMT
References: <174@quick.COM> <14116@think.UUCP> <2447@hall.cray.com> <503@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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>In article <3087@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>>... I can't think of any valid reason offhand you would *want*
>>to do such a thing.

In article <503@thorin.cs.unc.edu> leech@polk.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan
Leech) writes:
>    To let people patch site-specific data in code distributed
>binary-only ...

Also there is this:

	char *monthname(int month) {
		return (&"Jan\0Feb\0Mar\0Apr\0May\0"
			"Jun\0Jul\0Aug\0Sep\0Oct\0Nov\0Dec"[month * 4]);
	}
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