There is no practical advantage to null terminated strings though. It's not that they are "different", it's that they are extremely error prone and have poor p

There is no practical advantage to null terminated strings though. It's not that they are "different", it's that they are extremely error prone and have poor performance for certain operations such as getting the length. >But I don't have problems with C strings Everyone thinks they are clever enough to use them and other parts of C without problems, and those people are the most dangerous.