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Nick_C on Feb 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What I learned interviewing with Google

> not using things like strlen() when iterating through a C-string

At the risk of making myself look stupid, is that because of O(n) vs O(n^2) (should be testing for \0), or is there another reason I'm not picking up?

jimbobimbo on Feb 15, 2012 [–]

Yeah, it's just to see if a person understands that some basic pointer operations and that regular strings in C are "special" because of their \0 at the end.

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