Thread: What is a text buffer ?

I have an assignment to do, I have to do something with a textbuffer, the problem is I don't know what it is specifically.

Googling it just led to some random definitions which didn't really have much to do with what I have to do in my assignment.

Cheers

A text buffer is typically a char array, that holds a null terminated string.

Thanks Todd

However, I would like to point out that in generic terms, a "textbuffer" is "some sort of buffer/container that can hold text" - it could be an array of lines or a linked list of lines for example.

A very important question is what you actually intend to do with your text. [Although, if the text is relatively short, it would not make much difference - the difference comes when you start operating on files that are many thousands of lines, hundreds or more kilobytes - at least on a modern machine].

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Mats

> that holds a null terminated string.
Doesn't have to be null terminated... Does it? :\

Either way, it's still text.

According to my assignment criteria, a line is with \n. Where as the whole text terminates with \0.

My assignment has to do with arrays in a linked list, but yea I just had to get past the first bit, I wasn't really sure what it was.

Thanks