NULL as a string terminator
Wade Guthrie
evil at arcturus.uucp
Wed Aug 8 07:01:52 AEST 1990
Gary Duzan writes:
>=> char command[15];
>=> command[strlen(command)-1]=NULL; /* chop off the \n */
and Doug Gwyn says:
> You're correct; the example code would happen to work with the traditional
> definition of NULL as plain 0, but not if it's defined as ((void*)0).
That is why I have made it a practice to define a macro:
#define NULLchar '\0'
in order to reduce the confusion/broken code. One thing that I find
helpful is to have a header file called "global.h" or "wade.h" that
has a bunch of definitions I use in all my code. This file is included
by every C file and has things in it like:
#define YES 1
#define NO 0
#ifdef MAIN_MODULE
int my_debug = 0;
#else
extern int my_debug;
#endif
I find this to be very useful (the file is actually quite a bit bigger
than this, but I don't think anyone really cares. . .)
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