Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 7241] Adding col_get_str
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 11:49:30 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7241

--- Comment #4 from Chris Maynard <christopher.maynard@xxxxxxxxx> 2012-05-09 11:49:30 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> col_set_fence() can prevent text from being overridden, but I don't see how it
> could be used to effectively place "delimiters" between the PDUs of a single
> packet (which is what the RTMP dissector is trying to do).  With
> col_set_fence() you can place (and "lock") a delimiter at the end of PDU, but
> if there is only 1 PDU, the delimiter isn't really necessary.  And if you have
> only 1 PDU, you don't want to always prepend a delimiter at the start of
> dissecting it.  Yes, its nitpicky, but that would be my justification for
> col_get_str.

Isn't that what col_append_sep_str() and col_append_sep_fstr() are for?

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