null-terminated

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null-terminated (not comparable)

  1. (programming, of data) Stored in memory followed by a null character.
    Synonym: zero-terminated
    • 2003, Korry Douglas, Susan Douglas, PostgreSQL [] , Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 225:
      PostgreSQL has given you a text value, and text values are not null-terminated. You will need to convert fileNameText into a null-terminated string.