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Synopsis

char *XrmQuarkToString(quark)
     XrmQuark quark;

Arguments

quarkSpecifies the quark for which the equivalent string is desired. 

Description

It returns the string for which the specified quark is serving as a shorthand symbol.  The quark was determined earlier using The string pointed to by the return value must not be modified or freed, because that string is in the data structure used by the resource manager for assigning quarks.  Since the resource manager needs to make many comparisons of strings when it gets data from the database, it is more efficient to convert these strings into quarks, and to compare quarks instead.  Since quarks are represented by integers, comparing quarks is trivial.  For more information, see Volume One, Chapter 11, Managing User Preferences. 

Structures

typedef int XrmQuark;

See Also

XrmDestroyDatabase(), XrmGetFileDatabase(), XrmGetResource(), XrmGetStringDatabase(), XrmInitialize(), XrmMergeDatabases(), XrmParseCommand(), XrmPutFileDatabase(), XrmPutLineResource(), XrmPutResource(), XrmPutStringResource(), XrmQGetResource(), XrmQGetSearchList(), XrmQGetSearchResource(), XrmQPutResource(), XrmQPutStringResource(), XrmStringToBindingQuarkList(), XrmStringToQuarkList(), XrmStringToQuark(), XrmUniqueQuark(). 

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