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Comment: null byte => terminating null character

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In this example, the strlen() function is used to limit the number of times the function string_loop() will iterate. However, the programmer mistakenly subtracts 1 from the result of strlen(). As a result, the last character before the NULL byte terminating null character will never be processed.

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int string_loop(char *str) {
    size_t i;
    for (i=0; i < strlen(str)-1; i++) {
        /* Process str */
    }
    return 0;
}

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