We had out of Norway, a program where a student developed a new type of ski sock that had a special padding in it, and was actually able to get a patent on that and has taken it to market and been very successful.

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The square brackets here, meanwhile, say this is a special type of variable that's got multiple values inside of it.

这里的这个方括号，同时，说明这个是特殊的变量类型,里面有很多复合的值。

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So it does that for us so that you can get away with just knowing the address of the first byte and it will make sure that you know when to stop by including the special value so, in fact, get the string if you type in a three-letter word, we allocate four bytes no matter what because we need an additional byte 0 for this special sentinel value back slash zero at the very end.

它为我们做了这些事情，这样我们就可以,通过第一个字节的地址,它还可以通过包含一个特殊的值,来保证在哪里停止，如果你输入了一个三个字母的单词,就可以获得那个字符串，不管怎样，我们分配四个字节,因为我们在末端需要一个额外的字节,来保存这个特殊的标志值--反斜杠。

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