What are the problems of a zero-terminated string that length-prefixed strings overcome?

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What are the problems of a zero-terminated string that length-prefixed strings overcome?

I was reading the book Write Great Code vol. 1 and I had that question in mind.<

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What are the problems of a zero-terminated string that length-prefixed strings overcome?

None whatsoever.
It's just eye candy.

Length-prefixed strings have, as part of their structure, information on how long the string is. If you want to do the same with zero-terminated strings you can use a helper variable;

lpstring = "foobar"; // saves '6' somewhere "inside" lpstring

ztstring = "foobar";
ztlength = 6;        // saves '6' in a helper variable

_{Lots of C library functions work with zero-terminated strings and cannot use anything past the '\0' byte. That's an issue with the functions themselves, not the string structure. If you need functions which deal with zero-terminated strings with embedded zeroes, write your own.}