On 10/5/2010 9:45 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote:
But that would involve comparing two strings, rather than a string with a character? I would be pretty annoyed reading a dump and get portions omitted with "... these 32 byte are all the same, guess what they are..."
Note that Bill did say "...or thousands" - the standard way is to take your line width, and do a compare with a multiple of that width (at a minimum, two lines worth), print the first, and then the "all the same" message for the rest. If it's likely to have very long repetitions, CLCL might be a better way to determine the length, truncated to the appropriate multiple. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT
