RosettaCodeData/Task/Use-another-language-to-cal.../00DESCRIPTION

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This task is inverse to the task [[Call foreign language function]]. Consider the following [[C]] program:
<lang c>#include <stdio.h>
extern int Query (char * Data, size_t * Length);
int main (int argc, char * argv [])
{
char Buffer [1024];
size_t Size = sizeof (Buffer);
if (0 == Query (Buffer, &Size))
{
printf ("failed to call Query\n");
}
else
{
char * Ptr = Buffer;
while (Size-- > 0) putchar (*Ptr++);
putchar ('\n');
}
}</lang>
Implement the missing <code>Query</code> function in your language, and let this C program call it. The function should place the string ''<tt style="margin:0 0.5em">Here am I</tt>'' into the buffer which is passed to it as the parameter <code>Data</code>. The buffer size in bytes is passed as the parameter <code>Length</code>. When there is no room in the buffer, <code>Query</code> shall return 0. Otherwise it overwrites the beginning of <code>Buffer</code>, sets the number of overwritten bytes into <code>Length</code> and returns 1.