A software failure due to an invalid string of characters is common in any software system, but it is a critical one in an embedded software written in C language because it frequently manipulates ...

If you program in C, strings are just in your imagination. What you really have is a character pointer, and we all agree that a string is every character from that point up until one of the characters ...

I know many other languages use the eval() function to take a string argument and evaluate it as part of the source code (so you can run a function or assign a variable etc). I've seen it in PHP, ...