How to make a string without '\0'?

Question

A pointer was declared to have 2 chars and initialized but I still found '\0' as a third character.(please refer to the code).

How to make a string without '\0'?

https://code.sololearn.com/cRtza0op5CLI/?ref=app

Answer 1

When dealing with cpp unlike c stackoverflow looked at it
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42874699/stdstring-stops-at-0
my example is a bit different than Coder Kitten but also addresses the use of '\0'
https://code.sololearn.com/c9Sr2TJsMcs9/?ref=app

Answer 2

Probably because the rest of the memory either contains or is initialised to 0 and 0 is the ASCII value of '\0'.

Answer 3

Another interesting thing to notice is that it doesn't only print 'yes' for index 2 but for all values.