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/**
This library consists of the operations on binary strings provided by the standard library of LiveCode Builder.
*/
module com.livecode.binary
use com.livecode.foreign
public foreign handler MCBinaryExecPutBytesBefore(in Source as Data, inout Target as Data) returns nothing binds to ""
public foreign handler MCBinaryExecPutBytesAfter(in Source as Data, inout Target as Data) returns nothing binds to ""
public foreign handler MCBinaryEvalConcatenateBytes(in Left as Data, in Right as Data, out Result as Data) returns nothing binds to ""
/* No implementation
public foreign handler MCBinaryEvalContainsBytes(in Target as Data, in Needle as Data, out Value as CBool) returns nothing binds to ""
*/
public foreign handler MCBinaryEvalIsEqualTo(in Left as Data, in Right as Data, out Value as CBool) returns nothing binds to ""
public foreign handler MCBinaryEvalIsNotEqualTo(in Left as Data, in Right as Data, out Value as CBool) returns nothing binds to ""
public foreign handler MCBinaryEvalIsLessThan(in Left as Data, in Right as Data, out Value as CBool) returns nothing binds to ""
public foreign handler MCBinaryEvalIsGreaterThan(in Left as Data, in Right as Data, out Value as CBool) returns nothing binds to ""
public foreign handler MCDataEvalEmpty(out Value as Data) returns nothing binds to ""
--
/**
Summary: Prepends bytes to bytes.
Source: An expression which evaluates to binary data.
Target: An expression which evaluates to a binary container.
Description:
Use to insert bytes into data without replacement. Can be used either with a chunk expression to insert at a specified location, or without to prepend to the target data.
Tags: Binary
*/
syntax PutBytesBefore is statement
"put" "before"
begin
MCBinaryExecPutBytesBefore(Source, Target)
end syntax
/**
Summary: Appends bytes to bytes.
Source: An expression which evaluates to binary data.
Target: An expression which evaluates to a binary container.
Related: PutBytesAfter
Description:
Use to insert bytes into data without replacement. Can be used either with a chunk expression to insert at a specified location, or without to append to the target data.
Tags: Binary
*/
syntax PutBytesAfter is statement
"put" "after"
begin
MCBinaryExecPutBytesAfter(Source, Target)
end syntax
--
/**
Summary: Concatenates and .
Left: An expression which evaluates to binary data.
Right: An expression which evaluates to binary data.
Returns: Binary data consisting of the value of the left hand expression with the value of the right hand expression appended to the end.
Description:
The result consists of the bytes of followed by those of .
Tags: Binary
*/
syntax ConcatenateBytes is left binary operator with concatenation precedence
"&"
begin
MCBinaryEvalConcatenateBytes(Left, Right, output)
end syntax
--
/**
Summary: Determines whether and are equal or not.
Left: An expression which evaluates to binary data.
Right: An expression which evaluates to binary data.
Returns: Returns true if the result of evaluating is the same as that of , and false otherwise.
Description:
Performs a byte by byte comparison of and , returning false if there is any difference.
Tags: Binary
*/
syntax DataIsData is neutral binary operator with comparison precedence
"is"
begin
MCBinaryEvalIsEqualTo(Left, Right, output)
end syntax
/**
Summary: Determines whether and are equal or not.
Left: An expression which evaluates to binary data.
Right: An expression which evaluates to binary data.
Returns: Returns false if the result of evaluating is the same as that of , and true otherwise.
Description:
Performs a byte by byte comparison of and , returning true if there is any difference.
Tags: Binary
*/
syntax DataIsNotData is neutral binary operator with comparison precedence
"is not"
begin
MCBinaryEvalIsNotEqualTo(Left, Right, output)
end syntax
/**
Summary: Determines whether is less than under a byte by byte comparison
Left: An expression which evaluates to binary data.
Right: An expression which evaluates to binary data.
Returns: True if is less than , and false otherwise.
Description:
is less than if they are not equal, and the first byte in that is not equal to the corresponding byte in is of greater value.
Tags: Binary
*/
syntax DataIsLessThanData is neutral binary operator with comparison precedence
"<"
begin
MCBinaryEvalIsLessThan(Left, Right, output)
end syntax
/**
Summary: Determines whether is greater than under a byte by byte comparison
Left: An expression which evaluates to binary data.
Right: An expression which evaluates to binary data.
Returns: True if is greater than , and false otherwise.
Description:
is greater than if they are not equal, and the first byte in that is not equal to the corresponding byte in is of greater value.
Tags: Binary
*/
syntax DataIsGreaterThanData is neutral binary operator with comparison precedence
">"
begin
MCBinaryEvalIsGreaterThan(Left, Right, output)
end syntax
--
/**
Summary: Designates data of length 0.
Example:
variable tVar as Data
variable tCount as Number
put the empty data into tVar
put the number of bytes in tVar into tCount -- tCount is 0
Description:
Use ```the empty data``` to initialise a data variable.
Tags: Binary
*/
syntax EmptyData is expression
"the" "empty" "data"
begin
MCDataEvalEmpty(output)
end syntax
end module