[Gretl-devel] Re: matrix-to-scalar details
Am 12.10.2020 um 19:24 schrieb Sven Schreiber:
Am 06.10.2020 um 15:28 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
>
> And talking about undocumented extensions, maybe we should mention
> that nelem() can be applied to strings, in which case it returns the
> number of bytes as opposed to the number of UTF-8 characters. Or we
> could get rid of that.
>
I think it would be good (and easy) to just add a note to the strlen
information, where it currently is silent about how to actually count
the bytes. No reason to scrap it AFAICS.
Are you guys OK with an additional sentence in the 'strlen' reference
like this: "If you actually wish to count the number of bytes that the
string takes, you can use the 'nelem' function."
I could add that.
cheers
sven