The handling and parsing of string data has long been acknowledged as a fertile breeding ground for bugs and security issues; that is doubly true when the C language — whose string model leaves a bit ...

At that point, though, you're better off converting it to &str instead of &String - you can do everything that's possible with &String with &str (which is just start pointer and length). The only ...

If you program in C, strings are just in your imagination. What you really have is a character pointer, and we all agree that a string is every character from that point up until one of the characters ...