Reading this made me remember Zed Shaw's rant on C-strings and his recommendation to use a "Safer" string library: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex36.h

Reading this made me remember Zed Shaw's rant on C-strings and his recommendation to use a "Safer" string library: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex36.html http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex36.html I'm not an experienced enough programmer to be able to evaluate how much "safer" the bstrlib library actually is. I'm sure the various HN Engineers can chime in with their insights.