#### [Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:28:40PM +0000: Simon Cozens]
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:31:34AM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Added length parameter to extract_num and extract_int string vtables,
> > without this it would be impossible to have strings with nulls in while
> > still knowing where they ended.
>
> This can't be right, can it? Isn't that exactly the problem that STRING*
> fixes?
>
Sorry, not clear enough. The encoding needs to know how long the string
is, else it can't work out where to stop, string.c (aka STRING *) tells
the encoding this. No one else gets to find out, nothing to see here,
move along now.
FLOATVAL string_to_num (struct Parrot_Interp *interpreter, STRING *s) {
if (s == NULL) {
return 0.0;
}
else {
return s->encoding->extract_num(s->bufstart, s->bufused);
}
}
Alex Gough
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