blob2list() and list2blob() ?

[Christian J. Robinson]

I get that we can already iterate over a Blob like it’s a list, but some of my code would be far more efficient if I could convert a Blob to a List (and back again) using an internal Vim function rather than doing it with a for/endfor loop.   It would be a good match for the already extant str2list() and list2str().

 

Regards,

Christian

 

[Christian J. Robinson]

To be clear, I want to be able to convert to a list<number> and back to a blob.

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[Bram Moolenaar]

We could add those. I don't expect them to be used much, but if you
need them they should be more efficient.

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[yega...@gmail.com]

Hi,

On Saturday, August 28, 2021 at 5:20:38 PM UTC-7 Heptite wrote:

To be clear, I want to be able to convert to a list<number> and back to a blob.

I get that we can already iterate over a Blob like it’s a list, but some of my code would be far more efficient if I could convert a Blob to a List (and back again) using an internal Vim function rather than doing it with a for/endfor loop.   It would be a good match for the already extant str2list() and list2str().

Patch 8.2.3438 introduced the blob2list() and list2blob() functions.

- Yegappan

 

 

Regards,

Christian

 

[Christian J. Robinson]

Yeah, I saw that, and it works great. Thank you so much.

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