From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-04-13T05:02:22+09:00
Subject: Looking for efficient Ruby C way to append strings

Hi:

I have the following condition:

  a = "some text\n"
  b = "+ some more text\n"

I am trying to do the following in C:

  a.chomp!
  a << b[1..-1]

Right now I have

  rb_funcall(a, rb_intern("chop!"), 0, NULL);
  // needs to remove '+' from b
  rb_str_append(a, b);

It is tempting to increment the internal pointer
of b by one and then append to a. 

What I would like to avoid is having to create a 
whole new string object with b[1..-1] just to lose it in 
the append.

Can one of you Ruby C experts help me out here?

Thanks

-- 
Jim Freeze
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