Just curious...

[mark smit]

Hello,


Do ASCIIZ and FIXED STRINGS use the OLE strings?


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Cheers

[Colin Schmidt]

Hello,

No they don't.

For proof look at pointers. You must use STRPTR in order to get a pointer to the data of an OLE string as VARPTR would return a pointer to the handle of the OLE string. However VARPTR will return the address of the data for ASCIIZ and fixed len. strings because they have no handles.

Colin Schmidt

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[Tom Hanlin]

I'm not clear on what you mean by "use". Fixed-length strings, whether
ASCIIZ or not, are not implemented as OLE strings. If you manipulate a
fixed-length string, however, the compiler may need to create temporary
OLE strings.

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

[mark smit]

Thank you! That's what I needed to know!

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