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From: maa@clinet.fi (Miika Asunta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Str255 in C
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.161856.17315@clinet.fi>
Date: 16 Jan 91 16:18:56 GMT
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ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (lanett mark) writes:

>maa@clinet.fi (Miika Asunta) writes:
>>2. Instead of using strcopy, which is quite slow, use Toolbox routine
>>BlockMove, which is extremely fast:

>>{
>>Str255 a="\pThis is a test", b;
>>BlockMove(a,b,a[1]+1);
>>}

>I think you meant a[0]+1. This also works for strncpy (i.e.
>strncpy (a, b, b[0]+1) // b must be a pascal string



Yeah. Sorry the typing error... but again... why to use strncpy because
BlockMove() is much faster?

And should the a[0] be coerced somehow in Think C. I haven't had any
problems with this?
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