abstract:In computer programming, a null-terminated string is a character string stored as an array containing the characters and terminated with a null character ('\0', called NUL in ASCII). Alternative names are C string, which refers to the C programming language and ASCIIZ (note that C strings do not imply the use of ASCII).
Datatypespecification: the ability totellthe UItodisplaythe data at a givenaddressas a specific data type -for example, this address represents the startofa null-terminatedstring.