Comment by jstimpfle

Instead of putting up with people constantly complaining how C is bad because of zero-terminated strings, we should better educate folks that there is absolutely zero reason why one has to rely on a NUL byte in-band signal. And APIs like sscanf() shouldn't be used beyond their historic purposes and there are easier ways to program.

C doesn't really "have" zero-terminated strings other than supporting them with string literals as well as having an atrocious "strings" library for historical reasons. C has storage and gives you the means to copy data around, that's it.

(Although I fully agree that the GTA issue can be seen as a bug in the implementation of sscanf()).