strlen() - Considered Harmful

strlen is one of the most misunderstood and overused routines in the entire C standard library. I have noticed that the quality of a program is inversely proportional with the total number of strlen() statements in the entire program. This is why.

POSIX strlen spec: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/strlen.html

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