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BLOBS: Using atoms to store arbitrary binary data
Accessing blobs
PL_is_blob()
PL_unify_blob()
PL_put_blob()
PL_new_blob()
PL_get_blob()
PL_blob_data()
PL_free_blob()
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Availability:
C-language interface function
bool
PL_get_blob
(
term_t t, void **blob, size_t *len, PL_blob_t **type
)
If
t
holds a blob or atom, get the data and type and return
TRUE
. Otherwise return
FALSE
. Each result pointer may be
NULL
, in which case the requested information is ignored.