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Re: EuCOM : Attn Matt : String Return Value

• Posted by jacques deschênes <desja at gl?betro?ter.net> Oct 07, 2007
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jacques deschênes wrote:
> 
> Matt Lewis wrote:
> > 
> > Bernie Ryan wrote:
> > > 
> > > Matt Lewis wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Again, I can't explain the behavior...
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Matt:
> > > 
> > > I'am confused by your alloc_bstr() in unicode.ew file
> > > Here you call the ansi_to_unicode() and in that function you
> > > add two extra bytes then when you peek you ignore them
> > > and return just the string in a sequence.
> > 
> > Yeah, all I'm concerned about is the actual data, not the null terminator.
> > 
> > > str = ansi_to_unicode( str ) & 0
> > > 
> > > But on the return of the unicode sequence you are just appending
> > > a single NULL.
> > 
> > Yeah, there should probably be two nulls appended (that's what you're 
> > asking, right?).  I'm not sure why I didn't do that.  It's never been
> > a problem, though.
> > 
> > Matt
> 
> No Its OK like that as the string is ansi. The unicode string returned by the
> function must have 2 zero.
> 
> Jacques d.

NO. I'M WRONG  the zero is appended to result not the argument. It's time for
some sleep.

Jacques d.