On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Phil Hodge <ho...@stsci.edu> wrote: > > On 04/20/2017 03:17 PM, Anne Archibald wrote: >> >> Actually if I understood the spec, FITS header lines are 80 bytes long and contain ASCII with no NULLs; strings are quoted and trailing spaces are stripped. > > FITS BINTABLE extensions can have columns containing strings, and in that case the values are NULL terminated, except that if the string fills the field (i.e. there's no room for a NULL), the NULL will not be written.
Ah, that's what I was thinking of, thank you. -- Robert Kern
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