Re: String Bug or somethig I missunderstood?

Miguel Ángel Chacón [mailto:[email protected]] wrote:

> Ok, but of which language are we talking about? I=B4m a 
> VB/Java/C++/C# programmer and my question is about how the 
> string(C#) should be terminated, I thought the zero was the 
> mark, but now I don=B4t = understand anything.=20
> 
> What is , then, the implementation of the string(C#)?

Are you familiar with COM BSTRs? It's basically the same thing. There is no
such thing as a terminator. The length of the string is stored separate from
the character buffer. So essentially speaking when the runtime reads from a
string, it assumes the char*+length is the string in memory, regardless of
what the values in the buffer are.

HTH,
Drew

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