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This forum is provided to promote discussion amongst students enrolled in CITS3007 Secure Coding. If posting a question, it's suggested you check first whether your question is answered in the unit Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list, and use the search box (on the right) to see if an answer to your question has already been posted.

Please consider offering answers and suggestions to help other students! And if you fix a problem by following a suggestion here, it would be great if other interested students could see a short "Great, fixed it!" followup message.

Note that any posts must comply with the UWA Code of Conduct and the UWA Academic Conduct Policy. That means you should (a) treat everyone with respect and courtesy, and (b) not post your solutions to an assessment that's in progress.

If asking a programming question, it's recommended you read How do I ask a good question? If reporting or troubleshooting a bug in software used in the unit, it's recommend you read How to report bugs effectively.

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the C language How to check if a string is null terminated? (all 3)

8:02pm Wed 22nd May, ANONYMOUS

Thank you Arran, I understand now

the C language How to check if a string is null terminated? (all 3)

2:09pm Wed 22nd May, Arran S.

Hi, In C, the only way you can check if a string is null-terminated is if you know the size of the array that it's in. If you know the array is, say, N elements long, you can just write a loop bool is null terminated false; for(size t i 0; i...

the C language How to check if a string is null terminated? (all 3)

12:32pm Wed 22nd May, ANONYMOUS

Hi Arran, I wanted to check whether a string from user input is null terminated before passing it to strlen or other operation which could cause undefined behaviour, but I couldn't find a way to check this. Based on my understanding, checking for nul...

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