10 Jun
2001
10 Jun
'01
3:51 p.m.
Marco van de Voort wrote:
Actually, multiple chars is NOT a C string. E.g. a string could be padded with a certain char instead of nul terminated.
Hmm, pNulTerminatedArrayOfChars ?
Yes, but we should also make clear that the array is 0 based (and not 1 based like, e.g., required for SP strings). So we have PZeroTerminatedZeroBasedArrayOfChars, or for short PZZChars.
Hmm, can we perhaps find some adjective starting with `i', then we could get PizzaChar. ;-)
Hmm, I've no inspiration atm. But another "p" would be possible for "packed"
Perhaps "indefinite length":
Pointer to an Indefinite-length Zero-based Zero-terminated Array of Char: PizzaChar. Tastes good to me. ;-)
(Note: Just kidding.)
Frank
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