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Re: new allocate_string functions

• Posted by Bernard Ryan <xotron at bluefrog.com> Sep 13, 2004
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Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> Igor Kachan wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, Dear EU users:
> > 
> > There is the allocate_string() function
> > in the standard RDS machine.e library.
> > 
> > Try please some variations on this theme:
> 
> OK, it's not quite as readable, but you've convinced me:
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> global function allocate_string(sequence s)
> -- create a C-style null-terminated string in memory
>     atom mem
> 
>     mem = machine_func(M_ALLOC, length(s) + 1) -- Thanks to Igor
>     if mem then
>         poke(mem, s)
>         poke(mem+length(s), 0)  -- Thanks to Aku
>     end if
>     return mem
> end function
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> Regards,
>    Rob Craig
>    Rapid Deployment Software
>    <a href="http://www.RapidEuphoria.com">http://www.RapidEuphoria.com</a>
> 

Rob:

  Can't you do this ?

if mem then
         poke(mem, s&0)
--         poke(mem+length(s), 0)  -- Thanks to Aku
     end if

Bernie

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