Re: odd behavior with Character Arrays

[Mateusz Loskot <mateusz@loskot.net>]

Rohit Arul Raj wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz@loskot.net> wrote:
>> Rohit Arul Raj wrote:
>>> 2. Can i get more details as to why if the size of the array is not
>>> provided the compiler does not insert an string terminator at the end
>>> of the array.
>> How could that be?
>> It is an array but not a string literal, so compiler does not append \0 or
>> any other extra elements to it.
>>
>> Best regards
>> --
>> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
>> Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
>>
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If i give the size of the array as 15, like "unsigned char n[15] =
> {'a', 'b', 'c','d'};" , then it is appending '\0'.

Rohit,

Yes, this is perfectly correct.

 > But if the size of the array is not given "unsigned char n[] ", then
 > it is not appending '\0'.

And this is correct behavior and I was referring to the n[] case only.
Sorry for lack of precision.

> Does that mean, that if the size of the array is specified, it appends
> '\0' and if it is not specified then it does not append '\0'?
> Can you/anyone clarify this point?

I believe Jerzy explained it in details.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org