Re: [PATCH]: gnokii_strsplit as in glib (was Re: [PATCH] gnokii gtk2 port)

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 21:38 +0200, Pawel Kot wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
> 
> 2005/8/4, Bastien Nocera <address@hidden>:
> > And here's a testcase and a patch to implement an undefined number of
> > tokens. Pass "-1" as the number of tokens, and you shall receive the
> > smallest possible array, with the maximum number of tokens it could
> > create out of it. Should also be greedier than the current
> > gnokii_strsplit when it comes to allocating memory.
> 
> And what for do you need this feature?

Not to be restricted by the number of lines in the output, and it's more
"correct", as it won't allocate superfluous memory to hold the array.
Most callers would actually call it with -1, rather than some magic
number.

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Bastien Nocera <address@hidden>