Terminate a char[] -> String conversion midway via a null pointer
java, null, string
Solution
Unlike C, Java does not use NUL-terminated strings. To get the behaviour, your code has to find the location of the first `\0` in the char array, and stop there when constructing the string.
Problem
I'm trying to replicate this in Java. To save you the click, it says that a character array `['F', 'R', 'A', 'N', 'K', NULL, 'k', 'e', 'f', 'w']`, when converted to a null-terminated string, will stop after `'K'`, since it encounters a null pointer there. However, my Java attempts don't seem to be working. ``` public class TerminatingStrings{ public static void main(String[] args){ char[] broken = new char[3]; broken[0] = 'a'; broken[1] = '\u0000'; broken[2] = 'c'; String s = new String(broken); System.out.println(s); } } ``` Still prints `ac`. Aside from this I've also tried (1) not initializing `broken[1]` and (2) explicitly setting it to null, at attempt which didn't even compile. Is this possible at all in Java? Or maybe my understanding of things is wrong?