Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials, Second Edition

Name

stringinfo

Synopsis

stringinfo DEST, STRING, FLAG
               

Return information about a string. An integer flag selects which information to return, as listed in Table 11-2.

Arguments: IR, S, I

Table 11-2. stringinfo arguments

Flag	Returns
1	Location of string buffer header
2	Location of start of string memory
3	Allocated length, in bytes
4	String flags
5	Length of string buffer currently used, in bytes
6	String length, in characters