Need strnlen().
Stephen J. Muir
stephen at dcl-cs.UUCP
Tue Nov 19 09:02:28 AEST 1985
In article <207 at a.sei.cmu.edu> dlc at 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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