"Russell Borogove" <kaleja@estarcion.com> wrote in message news:3CAE8210.4020908@estarcion.com...

> Ohhh, crap. Well, I lobbied for padding (at least char
> and wchar) arrays with an extra zero-valued element to
> make conversion to C-strings easier way back when, but
> noooooooo....

Literals are terminated with 0 in memory. However, 0 is not considered element of the array:

    "foo" -> 'f', 'o', 'o', 0
    "foo".length == 3;

"Pavel Minayev" <evilone@omen.ru> wrote in message news:a8mk4r$n0q$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> "Russell Borogove" <kaleja@estarcion.com> wrote in message news:3CAE8210.4020908@estarcion.com...
>
> > Ohhh, crap. Well, I lobbied for padding (at least char
> > and wchar) arrays with an extra zero-valued element to
> > make conversion to C-strings easier way back when, but
> > noooooooo....
>
> Literals are terminated with 0 in memory. However, 0 is not considered element of the array:
>
>     "foo" -> 'f', 'o', 'o', 0
>     "foo".length == 3;

That's right. It's a bit of a hack, but a hack that works for the most common cases, like passing a string literal to printf!

"Walter" <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:a8nalt$1fsi$1@digitaldaemon.com...

> > Literals are terminated with 0 in memory. However, 0 is not considered element of the array:
> >
> >     "foo" -> 'f', 'o', 'o', 0
> >     "foo".length == 3;
>
> That's right. It's a bit of a hack, but a hack that works for the most common cases, like passing a string literal to printf!

It's also great when interfacing with APIs and such. Well, it just works, and variables can always be converted using toStringz().