Really, a better coding style is to use STL strings, containers and algorithms and never get down to the point where you have to care. Coding at the bare-metal

Really, a better coding style is to use STL strings, containers and algorithms and never get down to the point where you have to care. Coding at the bare-metal level is a very slow, tedious, error-prone and silly way to code unless you're doing, or have some external constraint that forces you to (and, no, efficiency isn't usually a reason not to use C++ or the STL, it almost always compiles to the same as using strcpy's and malloc's.) -- Ayjay on Fedang/coding