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From: bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: Baby X is bor nagain
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:32:01 +0100
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On 13/06/2024 16:11, tTh wrote:
> On 6/13/24 15:46, bart wrote:
>>
>> Note that it is not necessary to use one giant string; you can chop it 
>> up into smaller strings, say with one line's worth of values per 
>> string, and still get most of the benefits. It's just a tiny bit more 
>> fiddly to generate the strings.
> 
>     And what about the ending '\0' of all those small strings ?
> 

What about it? If you specify the bounds of the char array, then a 
terminator won't be added.

But I've now realised lots of shorter strings will make it awkward to 
define the data (now a table of chars, with the last row being partially 
full, making an exact size tricky).

It can only really work if the separate strings are concatenated into 
one big string. This may still run into string length limitations, but 
it depends on whether the limitation applies to individual strings 
(which is OK), or to the sum of all the strings (which isn't).