Can someone tell me...

[mark smit]

Hello all!

Can someone tell me why so many people use SPACE$ to presize a string before a file GET or TCP RECV? Am I really supposed to do that or is this done "just in case"? If the GET/TCP RECV calls return a string of a given size then why would you need to presize the string?

buffer = space$(len(datablock))
get hfile,,buffer

or

buffer = space$(len(datablock))
tcp recv hsock, len(datablock), buffer

Cheers!

[Michael Mattias]

Under Windows, many functions require a pre-initialized string, which means the string must have a length. The only way to give a string a length is to assign some characters to it. SPACE$ is handy.

(There could be a long, drawn-out technical explanation of memory allocation and the local process workspace here, but it would put at least one of us to sleep. Just stick with the above).

MCM

[mark smit]

Gotcha! thanks for the reply...

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