ALLEGRO_USTR(3alleg5)

💖 ALLEGRO_USTR — Allegro 5 API ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the ALLEGRO_USTR(3alleg5) page, it's short but it's iconic, let's go 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ALLEGRO_USTR — literally the Allegro 5 API, that's the whole name, no notes 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

typedef struct _al_tagbstring ALLEGRO_USTR;

that's it. that's the whole thing. short king energy 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so ALLEGRO_USTR is an opaque type that represents a string. like, you don't get to peek inside it, you just trust it. main character with a mysteriously locked diary vibe 🙈

normally these lil guys hold UTF-8 encoded strings — that's the default, that's the vibe. but here's the tea: they can also be used to hold any byte sequences, including NULs. yes, NULs, the ones that usually end everything early like a party that got shut down 😭 not here tho. no cap, they just live in there.

quick recap fr fr: UTF-8 by default, but raw bytes and embedded NULs are totally allowed. she contains multitudes ✨🌈

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and that's the whole page bestie, go forth and sling some strings 💜

this was ALLEGRO_USTR(3alleg5) from the Allegro reference manual — mwah, stan, bye 🎀💖🧚