On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 02:36:02PM -0500, Bob Maccione wrote:
> Hmm, since I'm using Filter::Stream I guess my next question is how to you
> tell the end of a string (for lack of a better word) in Perl? I guess I
> could write a Filter::String and then assume that all strings end with a
> null and look for the null in the stream, however I'm not sure if this is
> really correct (and I did search the web) and have no idea on how Perl knows
> the end of a string.
Perl's strings are stored in a simple structure, which looks
sort of like this:
struct {
pointer to a buffer containing the string data
integer, length of the string in bytes
integer, reference counter
};
So it really doesn't have anything to do with the C method of
inserting a trailing character at the end of the string; a side effect
of this is that Perl's strings have no problem storing NUL characters.
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