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Asked: 2026-06-11T22:47:43+00:00

The null character or null-terminator ( \0 ) is to be used to terminate

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The null character or null-terminator (\0) is to be used to terminate a contiguous sequence of characters. I find that in C, I can add the character into a string at a random position and the string will be cut off from that point. For example:

char * s = "Hello\0World";

will result in s being equal to the string "Hello". In JavaScript, however, this is not the case:

var s = "Hello\0World";

The above won’t work as expected. s will be equal to the string "HelloWorld".

Why doesn’t this work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    JavaScript does not use NULL terminated strings, while C does.

    Javascript strings are stored by keeping track of the characters and the length separately instead of trying to assume that a NULL marks the end of the string.

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