I was replying to specifically to something dragonchild said. I hadn't read the thread that led up to his post until now.

"\0" produces a single character string consisting of character zero (NUL).
chr(0) produces a single character string consisting of character zero (NUL).
The problem is that you used '\0'.
'\0' produces a two character string consisting of a backslash (\) and a zero (0). 

>perl -le "$s=qq{\0}; $,=q{, }; print length($s), qq{[$s]}, $s eq chr(
+0) ?1:0"
1, [ ], 1

>perl -le "$s=q{\0}; $,=q{, }; print length($s), qq{[$s]}, $s eq chr(0
+) ?1:0"
2, [\0], 0

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dragonchild should have recommended "\0" instead of the slower chr(0), but he was right to say '\0' is wrong.

And finally, I can accept that "null byte" (lowercase "null") can mean "a byte with value zero". When I corrected dragonchild, he had said NULL.

In reply to Re^10: Challenge: CPU-optimized byte-wise or-equals (for a meter of beer) by ikegami
in thread Challenge: CPU-optimized byte-wise or-equals (for a meter of beer) by dragonchild

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