This patch tidies up a few of the comments in string.c, and fixes one actual documentation bug -- namely, string_chopn removes the last n _characters_, not the last n _bytes_.
Simon --- string.c.old Thu Apr 11 19:01:31 2002 +++ string.c Thu Apr 11 19:06:47 2002 @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ } /*=for api string string_destroy - * free the strings memory + * free the string's memory */ void string_destroy(STRING *s) @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ /* vtable despatch functions */ /*=for api string string_compute_strlen - * get the string length of the string + * calculate the length (in characters) of the string */ INTVAL string_compute_strlen(STRING *s) @@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ } /*=for api string string_chopn - * chop the last n bytes off of s. + * chop off the last n characters of s. */ STRING * string_chopn(STRING *s, INTVAL n) @@ -561,7 +561,8 @@ } /*=for api string string_compare - * compare two strings. + * compare two strings, performing type and encoding conversions if + * necessary */ INTVAL string_compare(struct Parrot_Interp *interpreter, const STRING *s1,
