Fixed Length Strings - delimited or padded?

[chadwilson1]

In the document Simple-Binary-Encoding-v2-RC2.pdf from August 8, 2019, page 22, section 2.7.2 Fixed-length character array, for “Backing primitives” the spec says, “Array of char of specified length, delimited by NUL character if a string is shorter than the length specified for a field.” But section 2.7.2.2, page 23, “Examples of fixed-length character arrays,” the example says, “A character array constant specification. As for a non-constant value, if the constant is shorter than the specified length, it should be padded with NUL characters to fill the fixed-length array.”

"Delimited" suggests a single NUL character, while "padded" is clear that ALL bytes should be NUL. If "padded" is intended, could the spec section 2.7.2 be clarified?

Thanks,
Chad Wilson

[donmendelson]

Agree that "padded" is correct term.

[kleihan]

Resolved by changing delimited to padded in the section Fixed-length character array for V2.0 RC3 (and V1.0 Errata Nov 2020)