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In [[computer programming]], a '''null-terminated string''' is a [[character string]] stored as an [[Array data structure|array]] containing the characters and terminated with a [[null character]] (<code>'\0'</code>, called NUL in [[ASCII]]). Alternative names are '''[[C string]]''', which refers to the [[C (programming language)|C programming language]] and '''ASCIIZ''' (although C can use encodings other than ASCII).
The length of a C string is found by searching for the (first) NUL byte. This can be slow as it takes O(''n'') ([[linear time]]) with respect to the string length. It also means that a
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