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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Dedicate a static string size in the field of a user defined type.

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pdq
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Is there a way to define the size of a string in a user type?

I want to dedicate a predefined size.

for example, something like:


So the above dedicates a 32 byte block of memory.

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Mobiius
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Posted: 6th Aug 2013 20:12
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I don't believe so in DBPro, but you could I suppose in GDK.


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pdq
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The reason I am asking is because I am using MatrixUtilities peek and poke commands to read and write to the fields of a user defined type. I use an offset value added to the memory address of the user type. The field size is determined by the data type. The problem, of course, are strings. So I was hoping I could dedicate a block of memory to these string fields.
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Rudolpho
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Like that you mean?
A normal c-string is just an array of chars (which is the same thing as a byte unless you're using a unicode compiler setting), so you could use byte array with a fixed size and then convert those into strings on-the-go if you require this behaviour too. Probably won't be the fastest or most readable solution however.


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Thanks. I'll play around with it
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