What does null terminated character String mean?

• chaithu559

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  March 10, 2012 at 5:48 am

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  Hi Everyone,

  What is a null terminated character string. while i was going through the Integration Service Data types , there's something given like this for DT_STR data type ..

  "A null-terminated ANSI/MBCS character string with a maximum length of 8000 characters. (If a column value contains additional null terminators, the string will be truncated at the occurrence of the first null.) "

  What does this mean .. Please put on an example to explain this .

  thanks and regards

  chaithanya M

• Koen Verbeeck

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  March 12, 2012 at 12:42 am

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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null-terminated_string

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