Hello Jonathan!

Replying to a message of Jonathan de Boyne Pollard to Ed Becker:

 ZZ>> 
 >>                      Guidelines, even with it's built in
 >> char support, does not seem to want to put nulls in strings
 >> that have been pulled from an entry field.
 ZZ>> 

 JdBP>   When you cast a STRING to `char *' for passing to C code it should
 JdBP> be   automatically NUL terminated.  Do you have an example where it
 JdBP> isn't ?

 CHAR test[80];
 
 test = EntryField.Text

With Guidelines, test will pad the remaining bytes with hex 20 (spaces.) I have to:

 short temp;

  temp = Len(Trim(test));
  C: test[temp] = '0';

It *should* terminate it NULL, but Guidelines doesn't.  This caused me
hours of aggravation trying to figure out the above simple workaround.

I don't remember if it handles all STRINGS like that, or just when it's
pulled from an EntryField.

I *could* be doing something wrong, but when I pull it up in IPMD and click
on the string, sure enough, the string is padded with hex 20 and no NULL in
sight. 

Ed Becker
1:3618/7{at}fidonet

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