At 9:44 AM -0500 04/15/2000, Gary Mills wrote:
>I'm looking for a portable way to copy a numeric field value into a
>variable, using the C API. Using the notation in the reference
>manual, row[i] is a pointer to the value, and lengths[i] is the
>length of the value. I assume the value is in native byte-order,
>but may not be word-aligned. Is this correct? I can't predict the
No, it's not correct. The row[i] is the string representation of
the numeric value. It will be null-terminated, so you can use
atoi(), atof(), strtol(), etc. as appropriate for your purposes.
>length in advance - it may be a calculated field, for example.
>I also can't predict the length of the C variable into which I wish
>to copy the value - it will be different on different platforms.
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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
