Re: Converting C strings to Guile strings?

[rm]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:39:39AM +0000, Dr William Bland wrote:
> Hello all,
>       I'm sure this should be simple, but I can't find it anywhere
> in the documentation.  I need to construct a Guile string from a null
> terminated C string (i.e. a char*).  All I can find is constructors
> that construct a Guile string filled with a specified character.
> 

 Would 'SCM_API SCM scm_makfrom0str (const char *src);' be your function?
 You can find it in '$GUILE_CORE/libguile/strings.h'.

> Also, asuming such a constructor exists, it would be helpful to know if
> it copies the contents of the C string, or if the memory is shared between
> the C string and the Guile string.

Reading 'string.c' shows that that the function unses 'scm_mem2string' which
allocates new memory.

hth'ed Ralf Mattes

> Thanks in advance.
> Best wishes,
>               Bill.
> 
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