Why no early termination of Zstring when zero is in text?

[John Kauffman]

In the following ZStrings, why is the string not considered terminated after the fifth character (the internal zero)?


text.str(string("The 0 come first"))

DAT
myString byte " The 0 come first ",0

[Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)]

It's because it's an ASCII "0" which has the value $30, not $00.

-Phil

[John Kauffman]

I'm half way understanding, just need to be sure....

myString byte "The 0 come first ",0

So in the above the zero at the end is being treated like a code (in the way of 13 for CR).

Therefore:
myString byte "The 0 come first 0"
has not been terminated.

Thanks.

[Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)]

That's correct.

-Phil