Getting a String from a Bank

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verfum (Posted 2004) [#1]

Is there an easy way to get a String that is stored in a Bank? I am receiving a large amount of data from a dll into blitz via a Bank. I can extract integer data and float data ok, but I can't extract a string (easily). What I want to do is something like this .. my_str$ = PeekString(my_bank, offset) This would read from offset to a null-terminator. I have got around this by using PeekByte and converting it to an ascii char and then concatenating them all together. This seems a bit contrived. Any better suggestions?

Rob Farley (Posted 2004) [#2]

not really, you'll have to just though until you find your terminator my_str=mystr+chr(peekbyte(my_bank,offest))

verfum (Posted 2004) [#3]

Yeah, that's how I'm doing it. It would be really useful to be able to copy an instance of a user-defined type to a bank. Rather than having to poke each value individually.

Spinduluz (Posted 2004) [#4]

Check my homemade userlib for bankhandling (perhaps it might help you). Just download and check the code, it's written in C but all you have to do is to typecast it to use it in C++ (I think :)) here

verfum (Posted 2004) [#5]

Thx Spindeln.

Spinduluz (Posted 2004) [#6]

np , good luck!