What does it mean to be “terminated by a zero”?

Question

I am getting into C/C++ and a lot of terms are popping up unfamiliar to me. One of them is a variable or pointer that is terminated by a zero. What does it mean for a space

Answer 1

C-style strings are terminated by a NUL character ('\0'). This provides a marker for functions that operate on strings (e.g. strlen, strcpy) to use to identify the end of the string.