Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!ksand
From: ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Str255 in C
Message-ID: <48035@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Jan 91 22:23:41 GMT
References: <soDPV1w163w@cs.fau.edu> <1991Jan13.210327.9613@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Jan13.210327.9613@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (lanett mark) writes:
>jeffb@cs.fau.edu (Jeffrey Boser) writes:
>
>>this might seem like a stupid question, but it has been stumping me for
>>some time:
>
>>how do I assign a string constant to a variable of type Str255?
>
>>ie:
>>        {
>>        Str255 s;
>
>>        s = "\pThis wont work.";
>>        }
>
>
>Use strcpy (in <String.h>): strcpy (a, "This is a string");
>I'm not sure doing this with a p-str will work, since it may not have the
>requisite 0-byte at the end of the string. Try
>strcpy (s, "This will work.");
>CToPStr (s); (spelling may be wrong)
>CToPStr converts the string _in place_.

A strcpy(s,"\pThis wirl work."); eliminates the CtoPstr call as well.

Regards,
Kent Sandvik


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