ghost@bucsf.BU.EDU (Jay Adelson) (05/30/90)
Is it possible to set a GSString255 to a pascal string of 255 characters? I know the difference of the two strings (that is, what makes them incompatible..) and I'm looking for some way to convert from one to the other... -Jay _____________________________________________________________________________ |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Jay Adelson | Phantasmagoric Designs | "If you think things are | | ghost@bucsf.bu.edu | 829 Beacon St. APT 3B | going great, you've | | J.ADELSON1 (GEnie) | Boston, MA. 02115 | forgotten something." -JB | |_______________________|________________________|____________________________|
shawn@marilyn.UUCP (Shawn P. Stanley) (06/07/90)
In article <57874@bu.edu.bu.edu> ghost@bucsf.UUCP (Jay Adelson) writes: >I know the difference of the two strings (that is, what makes them >incompatible..) and I'm looking for some way to convert from one to the >other... No problem. Since GS/OS strings start with a length word, and Pascal strings start with a length byte, to convert from one to the other, all you have to do is skip the second byte in the length. (As long as the string is 255 characters or less!) If you want to use the same string buffer for the conversion, either move the first byte of the length into the second byte's location and then reference the string starting from the second byte for Pascal usage, or copy the string characters byte-by-byte backward one character. -- Shawn P. Stanley shawn@marilyn.marilyn.mn.org bungia!marilyn!shawn {rosevax,crash}!orbit!marilyn!shawn