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by vardump 2955 days ago
> I think it would be faster to OR the entire string with itself, then finally check the 8th bit though.

The string could have NUL (zero) bytes in between.
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zbjornson 2955 days ago
You're right that it changes the behavior vs. what the current implementation is, but 0x0 is a valid ASCII character.
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vardump 2955 days ago
While you're technically right NUL is a part of ASCII set in practise it's rarely wanted in the data.
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