At 6:29 PM -0400 4/10/02, Roman Hunt wrote: >Hey guys: > Here is what I have so far of the string_nprintf function. As of now it > only handles C string backslash escape sequences and regular chars >from the format string. My primary concern is whether I am using >BUFFER_immobile_FLAG the correct way to protect myself from GC. I also >dont know if the syntax I am using to convert the format string is >correct (It seems like it should be). adding in the rest is only a matter >of time if this method works {btw, I appologize for not submitting a >complete function but I was concerned that I might be running down the >wrong road and wanted to check }
I've not poked around at it much, but out of curiosity does this do something that the sprintf functions in misc.c don't do? >also I think >encoding_lookup() should accept an argument of "native". Good point, they should. OTOH, that makes some of this interesting, since which characters you use for various things depend on the encoding and charset. -- Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk