Comment by sdegutis

My biggest gripe with C's string functions is that it's really easy to make off-by-one errors when trying to do anything with two strings, due to NUL and the way they seem to handle it inconsistently. I'm constantly having to check the docs for any given string function to find out how it handles NUL (which isn't always in an obvious spot thanks to the design of man pages). And once I've found it, I have to come up with some contrived example that usually needs to be written in a comment just to make sure I've used its intended algorithm correctly and didn't cause an off-by-one error. If this library hides all that for me, I'm sold.