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For instance, a program may want to receive input of variable length. It requests 10 spaces from the computer into which to store characters. It receives the data to store, and appends a 0 after the data to signify the end of the string.
 
x x x x x x x x x x x <BR>
F R A N K 0 k f f w y
x x x x x x x x x x x <BR>
 
The above example is how "FRANK" would look in a 10 byte null-terminated string. Characters after the 0 are ignored by the computer.