I’ve been checking for the end of a string the following ways…

while (*String != '\0')

or

while (*String != L'\0')

But have found out that it is better to use 0 instead of ‘\0′ when looking for the end of a string. Comparing to 0 works with both ascii and unicode strings, whereas comparing to ‘\0′ only works for ascii strings. For unicode strings you would have to do L’\0′.

while (*String != 0)

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