Re: Encode <0>

["Stephane Rognon (ok)" <rognon@ELYSEES.FINACOR.FR>]

Thanks for your help Nathan.
Is there a easy way to do the replace job using Windows NT ?

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Nathan Treadway [SMTP:nathant@ONTKO.COM]
>Sent:  mercredi 29 janvier 1997 14:48
>To:    Multiple recipients of list SQR-USERS
>Subject:       Re: Encode <0>
>
>> My source code is :
>> begin-report
>>    encode '<0>' into $pp
>>    print $pp (,)
>> end-report
>>
>> Do I make a mistake ?
>> Is there another way to put '<0>' into my output file ?
>>
>
>No, you are doing the right thing, but it won't work.
>
>The problem is that SQR uses 0-terminated strings internally. So, when you
>encode a 0, the string handling routines treat that as an end-of-string
>marker and truncate the string at that point.
>
>I know of two work-arounds for this problem.  One is to write an external
>routine that does what you need and then link that into SQR.  (See UCALL and
>UFUNC in the SQR manual for more information.)
>
>The other is to choose some other character to act as a placeholder and then
>run a filter on the output file after SQR writes it.  For example, you could
>output a # where ever you needed a 0, and then run (on Unix) something like
>"tr '#' '\0'" on the output file.  (Note that not all version of tr can
>handle 0s.) You can even fire off the tr command (or whatever) from within
>SQR with a "call system using" command.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>                                                                Nathan
>
>
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