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Hi Jakob,<div><br></div><div>aha! Thanks for the "pointer." :-) *scnr*</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marcel</div><div class="mb_sig"></div><blockquote class='history_container' type='cite' style='border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px; margin-top:20px; margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;'>
<p style='color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;'>Am 24.04.2021 14:23:42 schrieb Jakob Reschke <jakres+squeak@gmail.com>:</p><div style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif'>
<div dir="auto"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"> <<a href="mailto:commits@source.squeak.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">commits@source.squeak.org</a>> schrieb am Di., 20. Apr. 2021</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Item was changed:<br>
+ ----- Method: ExternalData>>fromCStrings (in category 'converting - support') -----<br>
- ----- Method: ExternalData>>fromCStrings (in category 'converting') -----<br>
fromCStrings<br>
"Assume that the receiver represents a set of C strings and is teerminated by a empty string and convert it to a Smalltalk ordered collection of strings"<br>
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| stream index char strings str |<br>
type isPointerType ifFalse: [self error: 'External object is not a pointer type.'].<br>
+ self flag: #bogus. "mt: This format seems to be rather specific to some library. There would normally be pointers to pointers for such a structure. Or does the C standard mention such a format somehow? 'abcd\0efg\0hijklmnopq\0rstuvwxyz\0\0' ??? "<br>
strings := OrderedCollection new.<br>
index := 1.<br>
[<br>
stream := WriteStream on: String new.<br>
[(char := handle unsignedCharAt: index) = 0 asCharacter]<br>
whileFalse: [<br>
stream nextPut: char.<br>
index := index + 1<br>
].<br>
str := stream contents.<br>
strings addLast: str.<br>
str size = 0<br>
] whileFalse.<br>
^strings!<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Seems to be an API specific thing:</div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110511-00/?p=10693" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110511-00/?p=10693</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20091008-00/?p=16443">https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20091008-00/?p=16443</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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