ASON_ASPRINT(3)

💅 ASON_ASPRINT(3) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the User Manuals corner of the group chat — today we're talking ason_asprint and ason_asprint_unicode, and honestly? they're giving "turn my fancy struct into a string" and I'm obsessed. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ason_asprint, ason_asprint_unicode — besties who convert ason_t values into strings. fr fr, that's the whole job. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <ason/ason.h>
#include <ason/print.h>

char *ason_asprint(ason_t *value);
char *ason_asprint_unicode(ason_t *value);

like. two includes. two functions. so clean, so iconic. 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so ason_asprint takes a value of type ason_t and turns it into a human readable textual ASON representation. that's it, that's the vibe. it's giving "I speak fluent struct". 💖

ason_asprint_unicode</purl> — wait, typo, ason_asprint_unicode — is literally the same thing, EXCEPT:

• the returned type is always UTF-8 encoded, no exceptions, no negotiations 🫶
• and it makes full use of the character set, like it's wearing its best outfit to the function call 🎀

meanwhile ason_asprint endeavors to be locale-safe — it's the friend who checks the group chat rules before posting. respectful. considerate. a little bit cautious. we love her for it. 😌

so like, one is the maximalist glam version, one is the "I will not embarrass you in front of your locale settings" version. both valid. both slay. 💅

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🔥 RETURN VALUE 🔥

all functions should always return a valid pointer to char *.

no cap. always valid. never null. never playing games with your feelings. 🫶✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• ason(3)
• ason_values(3)

go read those too, iykyk 📚💜

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Casey Dahlin <casey.dahlin@gmail.com> — thank you for your service, legend 🫡💖

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and that's the whole page bestie!! main character energy from start to finish, no notes. this one came to you courtesy of Linux, dated JANUARY 2014 — yeah she's an elder but she ATE and she's still eating 🎀💅✨ mwah, bye!! 🦋