empty_string(3alleg)

Usage

#include <allegro.h>

extern char empty_string[];

Overview

You can't just rely on "" to be a valid empty string in any encoding format. This global buffer contains a number of consecutive zeros, so it will be a valid empty string no matter whether the program is running in ASCII, Unicode, or UTF-8 mode.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 2 times.

Referred to by

ustrsize(3alleg) Size of the string in bytes without null terminator. Allegro game programming library. ustrsizez(3alleg) Size of the string in bytes including null terminator. Allegro game programming library. get_datafile_property(3alleg) Returns the property string for the object. Allegro game programming library.