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--- en:pfw:string_handling [2024-04-17 15:54] – [The idea] willem
+++ en:pfw:string_handling [2024-04-17 15:59] (current) – [Generic Forth] willem
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 (We define) A few words that make string manipulation in forth a little smoother.\\
-Original idea Albert Nijhof en [[https://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/index.html|Albert van der Horst]]. Examples are:
+Original idea Albert Nijhof & [[https://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/index.html|Albert van der Horst]]. Examples are:
   * Manipulate files
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 {{https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11397265/142727480-4cb13037-c118-4d05-9eec-529aeaf23cad.jpg| string usage example}}
-However it more useful to use a construct of a cell containing a byte count followed by that many bytes.
-You should not store a count in a character unless there is a dire need to conserve space.
-Also a string in Chinese is some of the UTF representation is a sequence,
-where an interpretation of a byte is dependant on previous bytes.
-The abstraction presented here work equally well on this kind of data structure.
 ===== Pseudo code =====
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 </code>
-The version where the count is stored in a cell is hardly different, but simpler.
+Here is a version where the count is stored in a cell, it is hardly different.
 Note that it uses the non Generic Forth word ''%%@+%%'' you can find an implementation example in
 the [[https://project-forth-works.github.io/well-known-words.txt|well known words]] list.