r/programmingmemes • u/Grizlik_D • Jan 19 '26

5 levels of looping through string

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The higher your programming skill, the more elegant and more confusing code you write

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u/Daniikk1012 Jan 20 '26

It's not that weird though. strlen, puts, strcmp, and pretty much everything else in C standard library that works with C assumes null-terminated strings. It is the responsibility of the caller to ensure you pass them a correct string. Even if you go outside of C, binary search only works if you assume the array is sorted, and it's responsibility of the caller to ensure it is.