Whats the difference between .asciiz vs .ascii

Question

I read that .asciiz null terminates the string (appending \\n?) ... but when looking at the User Data Segment of QtSPIM,

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Answer 1

As written by @osgx, ASCIIZ means that the string is terminated by the \0 (ASCII code 0) NUL character. They are even called C strings. To quote from there:

In computing, a C string is a character sequence terminated with a null character ('\0', called NUL in ASCII). It is usually stored as one-dimensional character array.[dubious – discuss] The name refers to the C programming language which uses this string representation. Alternative names are ASCIIZ (note that C strings do not imply the use of ASCII) and null-terminated string.