Re: [CODE] That beautiful strlen_color function?

[Cecil <erikdx7@yahoo.com>]

ok, i've got a question about this too =P how do you use it... *shrug* i
know someone else had a snippet to do it, but i'd like to understand
where/how this works/where to put so i can play with it and use it where i
need it

--- altrag@realms.game.org wrote:
> well, probably not the same one but:
> 
> int strlen_color(const char *str)
> {
>   int l = 0;
> 
>   while (*str)
>   {
>     switch(*str)
>     {
>     case '&':
>       if (str[1] == '-')
>       {
>         str += 2;
>         ++l;
>         break;
>       }
>     case '^':
>       if (!str[1])
>         ++str;
>       else
>         str += 2;
>       if (str[1] == *str)
>         ++l;
>       break;
>     default:
>       ++str;
>     }
>   }
>   return l;
> }
> 
> On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 Sirkorlan@aol.com wrote:
> 
> >    Could someone please repost that nifty little strlen_color function
> that 
> > was posted, I think, two or three months back? I have gone through the
> 
> > archives and looked, but I couldn't find it. If anyone could, I'd be
> much 
> > obliged. I thought that I'd saved a copy then, but was, much to my
> dismay, 
> > wrong.
> > 
> > *Covers his ISP name in hopes that doing so may bring better
> responses*
> > Hearty Thanks,
> > Sir Korlan
> > 
> 
> 
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-Cecil
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