RE: Question about STRINGs...

Hi Daniel.

I currently use ARRAY[CHARACTER] for it but the problem is that most of the time I find that I want the result as a STRING, not simply an array of characters.  Being able to write directly onto the string saves me from manually copying a (potentially large) chunk of data.

Cheers.


-----Original Message-----
From:	Daniel F Moisset [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent:	Tue 5/31/2005 10:51 PM
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Subject:	Re: Question about STRINGs...
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 16:46 +1000, Phil Malin wrote:
> Hi there.

> or something so one can copy some arbitrary data pointed to by 'ptr'
> in an efficient way (by having it use bcopy/memcpy/etc.)?

I use NATIVE_ARRAY[CHARACTER] for that.

Other possibility is allocating space into the STRING, and passing its
pointer (to_external) to the C routines that do the reading (fread,
memcpy, etc)


	D.