Thread: How come my code works? Seriously. :)

Originally Posted by CommonTater

Ummm... not to be too picky here, but it's not automatically null terminated at all.

An array of char [8] has 8 elements numbered 0 to 7... element 8 is out of bounds.

If you put 8 characters in it, it is not null terminated... the null will be a 9th element which will be written out of bounds, launching you into the realm of undefined behavior.

I know, I know... I don't know where that came from.

Originally Posted by Fader_Berg

I know, I know... I don't know where that came from.

No worries...

Normally I'd just raise an eyebrow and let that go by. But in the context of someone trying to understand char arrays, it really did need correction.