class
	C_STRING

General
	cluster: elks
	description: "A low-level string class to solve some garbage collector problems (mainly objects moving around) when interfacing with C APIs."
	create: make, make_empty, make_by_pointer, make_by_pointer_and_count, make_shared_from_pointer, make_shared_from_pointer_and_count, own_from_pointer, own_from_pointer_and_count

Ancestors
	STRING_HANDLER

Queries
	bytes_count: INTEGER_32
	capacity: INTEGER_32
	Character_size: INTEGER_32
	count: INTEGER_32
	item: POINTER
	managed_data: MANAGED_POINTER
	string: STRING_8
	string_8: STRING_8
	substring (start_pos, end_pos: INTEGER_32): STRING_8
	substring_8 (start_pos, end_pos: INTEGER_32): STRING_8

Commands
	copy_to_string (a_string: STRING_GENERAL; source_index, destination_index, n: INTEGER_32)
	fill_blank
	fill_value (a_value: INTEGER_8)
	read_string_into (a_string: STRING_GENERAL)
	read_substring_into (a_string: STRING_GENERAL; start_pos, end_pos: INTEGER_32)
	read_substring_into_character_32_area (a_area: SPECIAL [CHARACTER_32]; start_pos, end_pos: INTEGER_32)
	read_substring_into_character_8_area (a_area: SPECIAL [CHARACTER_8]; start_pos, end_pos: INTEGER_32)
	read_unicode_substring_into_character_32_area (a_area: SPECIAL [CHARACTER_32]; start_pos, end_pos: INTEGER_32)
	set_count (a_count: INTEGER_32)
	set_shared_from_pointer (a_ptr: POINTER)
	set_shared_from_pointer_and_count (a_ptr: POINTER; a_length: INTEGER_32)
	set_string (a_string: READABLE_STRING_GENERAL)
	set_substring (a_string: READABLE_STRING_GENERAL; start_pos, end_pos: INTEGER_32)

Constraints
	managed data not void
	count not negative

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