depending on the variety,

and the compiler

A string,

however,

is intended to hold multiply consecutive characters

And,

For one reason or another

a string has a null zero automatically appended to it,

so that,

when he searched for what he thought was a character

he actually searched for a string,

which ended with a null zero

thus,,

because the search data did not have that particular string-encoded character right before its one and only null zero

that is to say its point of termination

the result was that no match was found

regardless of the presence of that character in the data

what is a null zero,

you may ask?

quite simply