On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Can you tell me, please, how to construct a varlena (to be returned by
> a function).
>
> I see it is declared as an int and a 1-byte array; I don't know how to
> assign a longer string in place of that 1-byte array; the compiler
> complains about incompatible types, whatever I do.
If I'm correct:
malloc(sizeof(VARLENA) + l);
where 'l' is the length of the string you want to put in (without the
trailing '\0').
Maarten
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