From: Bob Hutchison <hutch@...>
Date: 2002-04-22T22:40:05+09:00
Subject: Re: String sentinels

On 4/22/02 12:58 AM, "Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "String sentinels"
>   on 02/04/21, Bob Hutchison <hutch@recursive.ca> writes:
> 
> |I was looking through the source for String and noticed that there is a
> |sentinel (0x00) maintained at the end of each string. I'm wondering if
> |anything in Ruby depends on this, or if it depends on the maintained length
> |('len') field?
> 
> All string operations are depend on len field.  But in some cases, ptr
> value is passed directly to the C functions (and system calls) which
> may expect NUL termintated string pointer, for example to fopen(3).

Thanks, I shouldn't have a problem then.

> 
> matz.