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Re: genx - string termination and bounding

• To: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Subject: Re: genx - string termination and bounding
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:09:04 -0800
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <20040122035615.GE18459@m...>
• References: <A24ADFB8-4C8C-11D8-905C-000A95A51C9E@t...> <20040122035615.GE18459@m...>

On Jan 21, 2004, at 7:56 PM, John Cowan wrote:

>>  genxText(genxWriter w, utf8Byte * start, utf8Byte * end)
>
> I think the second argument should be one past the end.  This makes
> outputting things in chunks very easy: you just set start to end and
> call it again with a new value of end.  Computing the length from
> the end or vice versa is also not subject to fencepost errors.

Huh?  Oh, I get it, I think we're saying the same thing.  Suppose I 
have the characters "John Cowan said" in the variable named "buf", so 
then if I wanted to just emit "John" I'd do

  genxText(w, buf, buf + 4)

Right? -Tim

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    • From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
  • Re: genx - string termination and bounding
    • From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>

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