Re^2: C style strings

«…do you have a proper specification?»

Since I had none at hand I took the here:

"In C, the string data type is modeled on the idea of a formal string (Hopcroft 1979):

Let Σ be a non-empty finite set of characters, called the alphabet.
A string over Σ is any finite sequence of characters from Σ.
For example, if Σ = {0, 1}, then 01011 is a string over Σ."

Seacord, R. C. (2020) EFFECTIVE C An Introduction to Professional C Programming no starch press

Regards, Karl

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Re^3: C style strings by LanX (Saint) on Jan 01, 2023 at 13:39 UTC
Well I was referring to Escape sequences in C, i.e. specifically in "C-style strings" ° NB: the WP article doesn't list many references, other pages talk about variations depending on the compiler. Another point seems to be the distinction between various C versions like C99 which introduced `\uXXXX` ... Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery} °) not the mathematical definition of a byte vector.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: C style strings
by LanX (Saint) on Jan 01, 2023 at 13:39 UTC

Escape sequences in C

NB: the WP article doesn't list many references, other pages talk about variations depending on the compiler.

Another point seems to be the distinction between various C versions like C99 which introduced \uXXXX ...

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :)

Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

°) not the mathematical definition of a byte vector.

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