null-terminated

English

Adjective

null-terminated (not comparable)

1. (programming, of data) Stored in memory followed by a null character, so that its length can be detected without having to be explicitly stored.

   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.