char

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Now instead of 35 chars, your password has 7 words and a date.

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Quick take

a charred substance

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of char gathered in one view.

noun

a charred substance

noun

a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write"

noun

any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for char.

noun

a charred substance

noun

a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write"

noun

any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus

verb

burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"

verb

burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling"

Example sentences

Now instead of 35 chars, your password has 7 words and a date.

That's a key space of 95 characters, over 35 places.

"aaaaaaaa" is a random 8 char password, after all.

On C++ syntax errors: Syntax error: unmatched thing in thing from\n std::nonstd::__map<_Cyrillic, _$$$dollars> const\n basic_string< epic_mystery,mongoose_traits < char>,\n __default_alloc_<casual_Fridays = maybe>>

Therefore, we use UTF-8 char* everywhere, notably in the core.

The key space is all upper and lowercase english letters, all numbers, and all special characters.

"Sun will win" had 12 chars * 1byte/char = 12 bytes as a textfile, 24 bytes as an Openoffice file, and 100,000 bytes as an MS powerpoint slide!

Given that the LinkedIn password crackers are slowed down at about 9 chars it seems like you're incredibly secure.

For instance, simplicity is defined in terms of brevity & terseness but the example used to prove the point is that Eiffel requires "character" and "integer" whereas C only requires "char" and "int".For an alternative point of view on what constitutes "brevity" and "simplicity", see the common C idioms for filtering or mapping any variable sized data structure.