What is a null-terminated string?

A null-terminated string is a contiguous sequence of characters, the last one of which has the binary bit pattern all zeros. I’m not sure what you mean by a “usual string”, but if you mean std::string, then a std::string is not required (until C++11) to be contiguous, and is not required to have a terminator. Also, a std::string‘s string data is always allocated and managed by the std::string object that contains it; for a null-terminated string, there is no such container, and you typically refer to and manage such strings using bare pointers.

All of this should really be covered in any decent C++ text book – I recommend getting hold of Accelerated C++, one of the best of them.

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