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- From: fn00@gte.com (Farshad Nayeri)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3
- Subject: Re: What is the representation of Text?
- Message-ID: <FN00.93Jan26072103@tahoe.gte.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 12:21:03 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.230239.45587@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
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- In-reply-to: grenzelm@slate.mines.colorado.edu's message of 25 Jan 93 23:02:39 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.230239.45587@slate.mines.colorado.edu> grenzelm@slate.mines.colorado.edu (RENZELMAN GREGORY DO) writes:
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- I am taking a computer course at the Colorado School of Mines,
- which is using modula3 as the programming language. I'm interested
- in how the computer represents the data type TEXT. Is it similar
- to C where there is a null terminator? This information would be
- helpful because I will have to write code that parses TEXT.
- Thankyou for your time.
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- I think the whole point is that you *shouldn't* need to know how
- Modula represents TEXT. Commmon operations on texts are in the "Text"
- interface. If you _really_ want to know what the representation is,
- try the "TextF" interface.
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- You may want to take a look at "Modula-3" by Sam Harbison; I am sure
- he explains how to work with TEXTs.
-
- --farshad
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- Farshad Nayeri Intelligent Database Systems
- fn00@gte.com Computer and Intelligent Systems Laboratory
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