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Re: who ate my byte? [message #54974 is a reply to message #54972]

Mon, 23 July 2007 01:09

Maarten[1]
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Registered: November 2005

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On Jul 22, 7:02 pm, rtow...@gmail.com wrote:
> IDL> print,strlen('test' + string(0B))
> 4
> IDL> print,strlen('test' + string(1B))
> 5
>
> Huh?
>
> I am curious as to why IDL does this. Any ideas?

It probably is the C library underneath that does this, with its 0
terminated strings.

Maarten

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