Re: oops, was strings with length 0 "disappear" in table

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On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 13:26:11 +0100
Patrick Rapin <toupie300@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Internally, Lua adds an extra zero byte at the end of any string (so
> also for  the empty string), but this is only to simplify interfacing
> with C host code. Lua by itself never use that zero terminating byte
> nor count it in the length ; it stores the length of a string together
> with the pointer and the hash value.
> 

cheers, that answers my question :)

> For example, if #s == 2.125, that would mean there are 17 meaningful
> bits in it !

this again confuses me, but i leave it at that for now ;)

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