Mark Waddingham wrote: > On 2017-06-23 03:19, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: >> Seems murky. I'd much rather at least have something like a byteLen >> function, which returns the number of bytes for a given string. With >> that I can maintain byte offsets into a file with good performance >> and no ambiguity. > > You do: > > the number of bytes in textEncode(tString, <encoding>)
Ah, yes - of course. Thanks for the reminder. I keep forgetting about the byte chunk type.
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