Re: slang: UTF-8 and strlen

[Günter Milde <milde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:19:36AM -0400, John E. Davis wrote:
> Günter Milde <milde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Sometimes, you want to switch the behaviour at runtime, based on some value
> >and 
> > len = strlen(str, foo)
> >is simpler than
> > if (foo)
> >   len = strlen(str)
> > else
> >   len = strcharlen(str)
> 
> I have a hard time imaging a common situation where you would want to
> do this.  Do you have a specific example in mind?

I hope the time wasn't too hard... Actually I do not know enough about UTF-8
to come up with an example, it is more the general feeling.
(search_forward/backward is an example where search(dir=1) would facilitate
the implementation of a repeat_search() command that takes into account the
last search's direction)

Günter

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Milde at ife.et.tu-dresden.de

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