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Re: Writing a structure containing empty strings [message #49595]

Mon, 07 August 2006 15:15

Wayne Landsman
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Registered: January 1997

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> Do FITS files really want non-zero terminated strings in all cases except
> for 0 length strings? Pretty strange.

Yeah, that's what it wants. A possible rationale is that this way it can
distinguish between a null string (0b) and a string column with zero values
(nothing written at all). --Wayne

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