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Posted: **Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:19 pm**

Uh, is there a better way to clear a string then just:

for(i=0;i<128;i++) str[i] = '\0';

Because it gets old typing that......-JL

Posted: **Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:30 pm**

memset?

Posted: **Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:30 pm**

Hi,

piranha wrote:Uh, is there a better way to clear a string then just:
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for(i=0;i<128;i++) str[i] = '\0';
Because it gets old typing that......-JL

Do you need to clear the string? Often, for ASCIIZ strings it's enough to do:

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str[0] = '\0';

Cheers,

Brendan

Posted: **Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:29 am**

I recommend using aligned buffers for 4 bytes in each iteration using any general purpose register (GPR) or using 8 bytes per iteration using MMX. Putting 1 byte per iteration is really not a good idea in my opinion.

Posted: **Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:32 am**

Which means, memset.

Posted: **Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:01 pm**

Thanks, it did work with just str[0] = '\0'

Cool

-JL

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Clearing a string (char array)

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