Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Append column data from a prevoious dissector

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:07:17 -0800
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:40:41AM +0100, Biot Olivier wrote:
> I'm unable to append data to the Info column in the case a lower protocol
> layer has already written something in this column. Concretely, I intended
> to append "WBXML" and the content type to the WSP primitive.

What happens if you try using "col_append_str()" or "col_append_fstr()"?

> However it looks like I can only reset the column when moving from one
> protocol to another.

By "reset the column" do you mean "clear the column", as with
"col_clear()"?  If so, you shouldn't clear the column if you're going to
append to it.