Re: glib strlen ?

[mige <mige hunno co id>]

Hi folks,

First, thank you for all infos.
It's confirmed that no function in glib for strlen, right ? Both gchar 
and GString.
Why . May be it's related to i18n, multy-byte characters, etc

I use the strlen, and it's ok for this time.
Is it ok  to access the GString's len member directly ?

regards,
mige

Tristan Van Berkom wrote:

> Mark Mielke wrote:
>  
>
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:42:18AM -0000, martyn 2 russell bt com wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > GLIB is not a replacement for standard string functions, it is more like an
> > > extension.  strlen is perfectly capable of returning the length of a string
> > > you provide it, there is no need to glib to have such a function.
> > >      
> > Actually, if he is speaking about a GString object, the following snippet
> > does what he wants:
> >
> >    if (string != 0 && string->len != 0)
> >        /* String is defined and has >0 length... */
> >    else
> >        /* String is not defined, or has 0 length... */
> >
> >    
> >
> > > strlen(mystr) should be part of string.h
> > >      
> > strlen() is defficient in a number of ways. First, it cannot store '\0'.
> >    
>
> KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid), 
> 	whats the point of initializing all kinds of
> fancy structures and objects just to manipulate strings ?
> string.h is something you can trust; it's _always_ worked.
>
>
> // here is a string containing a '\0'
> char *string = "\0";
> // strlen will return 0 length.
>
> // here is something naive
> char *string = '\0'
> // strlen will never return and you'll
> // recieve SIGSEGV for trying to
> // reference ('\0'[0]) 
>
>  
>
> > Second, it is usually O(n) instead of O(1).
> >    
> huh ? what exactly do you mean ?
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>         -Tristan
>
>
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