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A character array seems like a natural way to me to represent a string of characters. But Unicode though...

• deleted 8y ago
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• fulafel 8y ago
  As C functions can't take arrays as arguments, you don't get very far this way.
  • kizer 8y ago
    ...you pass in a pointer to the first character. Arrays in C are simply contiguous spans of memory.
    • fulafel 8y ago
      Thid then has the problem that thr length is unknown, leading to well known problems.
      • petee 8y ago
        Well if you wrote the array, or your program did, then you do know the length. Not a problem. Would it be nice if an array internally stored that? Sure. Does it? No. Is that a real problem? No, not really - its been solved and worked around for decades
  • petee 8y ago
    This is incorrect; a quick search with your first sentence will answer that
    • fulafel 8y ago
      I found the opposite, and a quote from the standard: " A declaration of a parameter as ‘‘array of type’’ shall be adjusted to ‘‘qualified pointer to type’’, where the type qualifiers (if any) are those specified within the [ and ] of the array type derivation."
      • petee 8y ago
        You pass by reference, not by copy. It is still passing an array to a function though