-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Warren <fastfwd@IX.NETCOM.COM>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Friday, 10 October 1997 8:21
Subject: Re: [OT] another q from the stupid newbie

>    Good explanation, Martin, but you left out one important thing:

>    After every copy from source to destination, the "while" examines
>    the value that was copied.  If the value isn't equal to 0,   the
>    next thing is copied; if it IS equal to 0 (as it will be after
>    the last value in the zero-terminated string is copied), the loop
>    terminates and execution continues to the next instruction.


And if it's not zero-terminated, god help you.  It'll copy till it finds
one, writing merrily away into who knows where.
One reason I prefer a string class. (one of many!)

MikeS
<mikesmith_oz@relaymail.net>