I would still like to know how to pass in a null character as a command line argument, maybe so that a single string can be passed in as an argument in the form:
"to\0be\0or\0not\0to\0be\0"
And then parse it. However the program would treat this string as:
"to\\0be\\0or\\0not\\0to\\0be\\0"
How can I work around this? Is there any way?
In Linux, any special character can be literally inserted on the terminal by pressing Ctrl + v followed by the actual symbol. null is usually ^@ where ^ stands for Ctrl and @ for whatever combination on your keyboard layout that produces @ .
The Null character in the C programming language is used to terminate the character strings. In other words, the Null character is used to represent the end of the string or end of an array or other concepts in C. The end of the character string or the NULL byte is represented by '0' or '\0' or simply NULL.
The null character is often represented as the escape sequence \0 in source code , string literals or character constants.
Yes. The non-null pointers in the argv array point to C strings, which are by definition null terminated.
C strings are null-terminated, so passing strings containing NUL characters is not possible in C. :-P
Now, if you just wanted a way to convert \0
(in the user input, i.e., "\\0"
as a C string) into actual NUL characters, that's another matter. In that case, your program just needs a parser to treat \0
as separators.
You cannot.
The C program receives arguments as zero-terminated strings. Such a string cannot contain a null character, by definition.
If you want to pass a null character, then you must somewhat encode it with some syntax, and your C program must then decode it by interpreting that syntax.
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