[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 04:21:03PM +0100, Phil Williams wrote:
> Sorry about the wait, I completely forgot. Anyway, below is a routine
> when added to epan/proto.c (and the prototype in epan/proto.h) will do a
> name lookup, given a pointer to a string, it will return a
> header_field_info pointer if the protocol database contains that string,
> and a null pointer if not.  It looks up on the unique abbreviations
> registered, e.g. "ip" for IP packets, "ip.len" for the ip packet length
> etc.

Checked in - but with the name "proto_registrar_get_byname()", by
analogy to "proto_registrar_get_nth()".