efun: to_array

SYNOPSIS:

        mixed *to_array(string)
        mixed *to_array(symbol)
        mixed *to_array(quotedarray)
        mixed *to_array(mixed *)
        mixed *to_array(struct)

        (int*)<value>

DESCRIPTION:

        Strings and symbols are converted to an int array that
        consists of the args characters. Note that the string "12" will be
        converted to the array ({ 33, 34 }), and not ({ 33, 34, 0 }) (the
        LDMud versions prior to 3.3 returned the latter array).

        Quoted arrays are ``dequoted'', and arrays are left as they
        are.

        structs are converted into a normal array.

BUGS:

        The cast notation only works if the precise type of <value>
        is known at compile-time. This will not be fixed - use the
        function form instead.

HISTORY:

        LDMud 3.3.250 added structs to the accepted data types.

SEE ALSO:

	
	to_int(E), to_string(E), to_struct(E)