Finding NULL byte in a long

Doug djs at nimbus3.uucp
Wed Dec 5 14:32:06 AEST 1990


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.


					Doug
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