Sentinel value. Below are some examples of common sentinel values and their uses: Null character for indicating the end of a null-terminated stringNull pointer for indicating the end of a linked listA negative integer for indicating the end of a sequence of non-negative integersEnd-of-file, a non-character value returned by certain input routines to signal that no further characters are available from a fileHigh Values, a key value of hexadecimal 0xFF used in business programming A related practice, used in slightly different circumstances, is to place some specific value at the end of the data, in order to avoid the need for an explicit test for termination in some processing loop, because the value will trigger termination by the tests already present for other reasons.
Sentinel values are often used when searching for something[clarification needed][why?] Of importance.[3] See also[edit] Notes[edit] Jump up ^ Knuth, Donald (1973). Learning C/C++ Step-By-Step. 01.
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