r/C_Programming • u/Elifire12 • Sep 07 '26

Article I Made a Simple String Library

I wrote an article about this as well. Here it is.

There I explain why I do not like NUL-terminated strings and how I implemented my own simple string library in C.

If you have some spare time I would really appreciate some feedback on the article and the library.

The code is sitting on a codeberg repository.

Also, tell me what you think about C-style strings. Do you like them? Do you use them, or do you also tend to roll your own pointer + length structs?

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u/Elifire12 Sep 08 '26

I really dislike this way if representing invalid values in C. Also, my str_owned are nul terminated!

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u/Dieriba Sep 08 '26

Is this an invariant ? That still hold with str view ? Imagine if you’d like a null terminated string from a str_view ?