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Nul Characters in Strings in SQLite

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Re: Nul Characters in Strings in SQLite

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As long as we're supporting in-band signals in strings, how about making DEL rub out the previous character?

Add forward-cursor and back-cursor, and maybe we can embed a Turing machine in a string.

increment previous character.

Re: Nul Characters in Strings in SQLite

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>* The length() SQL function only counts characters up to and excluding the first NUL.* > The quote() SQL function only shows characters up to and excluding the first NUL. > The .dump command in the CLI omits the first NUL character and all subsequent text in the SQL output that it generates. In fact, the CLI omits everything past the first NUL character in all contexts. That's just all kinds of "oh no", wow. I mean,…

The better strategy is that it should just work, isn't it?

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