[Biococoa-dev] NSMutableData vs malloc

[Charles Parnot]

I don't see why we can't keep simply

+ (id) symbolForChar: (unsigned char)aSymbol

There is a direct correspondance between BCSymbol and char, so a  
BCSymbol is defined by a char, not a string. I should have a look at  
the code to help better, but maybe there is some confusion happpeing  
when switching between NSString and char* and char...

charles


On Jul 17, 2005, at 5:45 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote:

>
> On Jul 17, 2005, at 8:30 AM, John Timmer wrote:
>
>
>> I think you want "stringWithUTF8String" or some other method  
>> containing
>> UTF8.  It's the "modern" equivalent of C strings.
>>
>>
>
> Good point, thanks. So we are going with utf8 encoding, then?
>
> Another issue, of course I should have used unsigned char* instead  
> of unsigned char. But now the following won't work, because the  
> argument for switch is not an int but a pointer:
>
> + (id) symbolForChar: (unsigned char * )aSymbol
> {
>     switch ( aSymbol ) {
>
>
> Any idea how to fix that?
>
>
> Also, I now need to typecast all these lines:
>
> From:
>
> asparagineRepresentation = [[BCAminoAcid alloc]   
> initWithSymbolChar: 'N'];
>
> to
>
> asparagineRepresentation = [[BCAminoAcid alloc]   
> initWithSymbolChar: (unsigned char *) 'N'];
>
>
> I guess that is unavoidable?
>
> cheers,
>
> - Koen.
>
>
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