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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Implicit String-Literal Concatenation
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 21:08:48 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 04 Mar 2024 20:55:28 -0800, Keith Thompson wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:14:52 -0800, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>
>>> "A *string* is a contiguous sequence of characters terminated by and
>>> including the first null character."
>>
>> So how come strlen(3) does not include the null?
> 
> Because the *length of a string* is by definition "the number of bytes
> preceding the null character".

So the “string” itself includes the null character, but its “length” does 
not?