As an illustration, many BASIC interpreters once fielded a string data struct organization with one value recording string length, one indexing ( cursor value of ) the previous line, one pointing to the string data.
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The inability to store a NUL requires that string data and binary data be kept distinct and handled by different functions ( with the latter requiring the length of the data to also be supplied ).
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Because Path _ Info and Query _ String data can be added to the URI after the target filename or program, the execution of the program or returning of the file does not occur until the entire URI is parsed.
