POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Feature Request: Binary #write : Re: Feature Request: Binary #write Server Time
30 Jul 2024 16:24:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Feature Request: Binary #write  
From: clipka
Date: 26 Mar 2009 08:00:00
Message: <web.49cb6d3d6dca0b6493bfb07f0@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>   (OTOH I don't know how povray internally handles string identifiers.
> If it handles them as arrays of chars, with a separate length variable,
> then there would be no problem.)

No, unfortunately they're not. After all, POV used to be a C program. So chr(0)
always collapses to a zero-length string in POV-Ray's eyes (in *any* context,
btw).

>   But the proposed changes might be a better approach anyways.

I wouldn't generally call them better, but I'd definitely call them easiest to
implement.


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