May 3, 2000
10:05 p.m.
Skip Montanaro writes:
Note that currently the len() method doesn't call strlen() at all. It just returns the ob_size field. Presumably, with Just's proposal len() would simply return ob_size/width. If you used a variable width encoding, Just's plan wouldn't work. (I don't know anything about string encodings - is UTF-8 variable width?)
Yes, technically from 1 - 6 bytes per character, though in practice for Unicode it's 1 - 3. -tree -- Tom Emerson Basis Technology Corp. Language Hacker http://www.basistech.com "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you suck forever"