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String processing with character arrays is one of the biggest time–wasters in C. Character arrays require the programmer to keep track of the difference between static quoted strings and arrays created on the stack and the heap, and the fact that sometimes you’re passing around a char* and sometimes you must copy the whole array.
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Goyal, A. (2013). Strings in Depth. In: Moving from C to C++. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6095-0_18
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