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Re: null as a valid data

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Feb 09, 2001
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On 9 Feb 2001, at 11:31, Michael  Sabal wrote:

> Just create your own atom null and set it equal to 0.  If you are reading
> bytes from an
> input stream or a binary file, C-style strings are standardly terminated with
> #00.

And how will that solve the examples i gave?

Kat

> >>> gertie at PELL.NET 02/09/01 01:50PM >>>
> Robert, can you introduce null as a valid data, so that the following would
> work?:
> 
> -- program
> sequence string, test
> 
> global procedure testchars
> atom nulltestchar
>  if ( string[24] = 'f' ) then 
>   test = dosomething(string[22]) 
>  end if
>  test = dosomething(atom)
> end procedure -- testchars
> 
> function dosomething(sequence data)
>   if ( data != null ) then puts(1,data&CRLF) end if
> end function -- dosomething
> 
> string = "this is 21 chars long"
> testchars
> -- end program
> 
> Kat
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