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