How are strings terminated in C#?

Question

This program throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException.

string name = "Naveen";
int c = 0;
while( name[ c ] != '\0' ) {
    c++;
}
Console.WriteLine("Length of string " + name + " is: " + c);

Why is it so? If strings are not null-terminated. How strings are getting handled in C#? How can I get the length without using string.Length property? I'm confused here.!

Answer 1

C# does not use NUL terminated strings as C and C++ does. You must use the Length property of the string.

Console.WriteLine("Length of string " + name + " is: " + name.Length.ToString());

or by using formatters

Console.WriteLine("Length of string '{0}' is {1}.", name, name.Length);