big/little endian issues

[armin_miewes]

I was reading about unix network programming when i found about the big/little endian problem. Im working on PC(as we know Intel-based processors are little-endian), and if i need to send multi-byte numbers over a network, i have to convert them to big-endian format. My question is this, in a certain way, affects the character strings too? if im going to transmit any string, do i have to convert it in some format in order to send it over a network?

Thanks in advance

[Salem]

NAME
htonl, htons, ntohl, ntohs − convert values between host and network
byte order

SYNOPSIS
#include <netinet/in.h>

uint32_t htonl(uint32_t hostlong);

uint16_t htons(uint16_t hostshort);

uint32_t ntohl(uint32_t netlong);

uint16_t ntohs(uint16_t netshort);

You should have these already
Then it doesn't matter whether your machine is big or little