"bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> Thanx for your responses,
> first I don't claim to be a good speller :)
> next, I don't know what the size of the Title or descriptions will be,
they
> will change.
> second, I am using this on a palm.
> third, I have all the books, and then read the and read them, been at this
> one thing for a while, then I have read them again (as I mentioned), but
it
> seems that most of them have to do with known sizes, I don't know how many
> strings that title and description will have, all I will know is that they
> will have the same amount. I won't know the total until after the return
> from the 'Separator' function, because they have not been separated yet
and
> I don't know the lengths of the strings until after that either. I guess,
I
> need to know how to declare space for something before you know the size,
or
> do I just pick a size that is larger than any that might occur??
... or you could give up trying to do everything in one pass.
First: process the input once to determine how much memory you need to
allocate
Second: allocate that room
Third: process the input _again_ to get your desired result
--
-Richard M. Hartman
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186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
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