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It may be cumbersome, but C has string handling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_string_handling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_string_handling

• deelowe 14y ago
  This is an article about the standard library. C has no built in string handling. As an example, there are embedded systems that do no have support for string types due to a lack of support for libraries that handle it, yet they are 100% compliant with the C spec.
  • tedunangst 14y ago
    How you can be 100% compliant with the C spec by omitting strlen is a mystery to me.
  • caf 14y ago
    The C standard library is specified as part of the language specification document. The language defines two kinds of implementations: "hosted", which must support the entire standard library; and "freestanding", which do not. Those embedded systems that do not support the full standard library are 100% compliant freestanding implementations, but are not compliant hosted implementations.