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  3. March 2003

RE: TRIMming of loval

Rob wondered:

>Thank you Barbara.  Lovals work the same as null terminated?

Yes.  Loval = x'00' = null terminated.

For whatever reason, the C people insist on calling x'00' null.  In ASCII,
the official name of the character is NUL, but it doesn't matter.  For C
strings, null terminated means that the compiler uses a special value
(x'00') to indicate the end of the string.

This special value (NUL) is not to be confused with the SQL world's NULL,
which means "no value".

We must be running out of words, because we are starting to re-use the ones
we have to mean different things.
  --buck

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