Function: textblob

Syntax

textblob (<strings[ ]> {,<sep>})

Type

blob

Returns

A blob derived from one or more string values.

Parameters

• <strings>
  The string value(s) with which to initialize the blob. All characters (multi-byte if necessary) are copied to the blob byte-for-byte. This can be an array of strings in which case all strings are concatenated, separated by a <sep>.

• <sep>
  A string separator to be appended to every string value copied. If omitted, an empty string (i.e. no separator) is used.

Examples

Create a blob from a literal string value.

blob b = textblob('<mydata>My Text</mydata>\n')

The resulting blob will have length 25.

Create a blob from a series of strings, and separate them by a line feed character.

string mys[]
dir *.dat,-os=mys;# Find all .dat files
blob b = textblob(mys,'\n')

See Also