Re: Internal Representation of Strings

Tony wrote:
> What are some good ways/concepts of internal string representation?
> Are/should string literals, fixed-length strings and dynamic-lenght strings
> handled differently? My first tendency is to avoid like the plague
> NUL-terminated strings (aka, C strings) and to opt for some kind of array
> with a length at the beginning followed by the characters that could be
> encapsulated at the library level with appropriate functions. But just a
> length seems like not enough information: the capacity (array length) also
> would be nice to have around. All thoughts, old and novel, welcome.


You might be able to use the VMS descriptor for inspiration. Google for
"descrip.h," "OpenVMS descriptor," etc.


Louis

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