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Old 03-May-2009, 10:27
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Null Character '\0'

Why is the null character generated by the compiler at the end of the string during runtime and how?
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Re: Null Character '\0'

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Why ... and how?
Your question of "why and how" is based on the premise that it is generated at run time. It is not generated at run time, so the question is ill-posed, and is, therefore, unanswerable.

So, instead of attempting to answer the unanswerable, I will respond with two questions of my own:
  1. Why do you assume that it is generated at run time?

  2. What would you really like to know?

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Old 03-May-2009, 14:31
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Re: Null Character '\0'

Perhaps shafaatmosvi means compiler run time, which is a stretch. The answer is to mark the end of the string so that it may be accessed by no more than a char pointer.
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Re: Null Character '\0'

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Why is the null character generated by the compiler at the end of the string during runtime and how?
At runtime, the compiler does nothing; it has no effect whatsoever.
 
 
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