Fixed string pointer

[Dale Yarker]

Maybe just having case of brain lock this morning, but having trouble
dim'ing a pointer to a fixed length string.

#compile exe
#dim all

function pbmain () as long
  local TargStr as string * 16
  local MyStr as string * 16
  'un-comment one of next three lines
  'local pMyStr as MyStr pointer '<-- Undefined TYPE at "MyStr" during compile
  'local pMyStr as string * 16 pointer '<-- End of statement expected during compile
  'local pMyStr as string pointer '<-- GPF during run ... duh
  MyStr = "1234"
  pMyStr = varptr(MyStr)
  msgbox str$(pMyStr)
  TargStr = @pMyStr
  msgbox TargStr
end function

???

TIA,

[Bob Zale]

The correct syntax is:

LOCAL pMyStr as STRING POINTER * 16


Best regards,

Bob Zale
PowerBASIC Inc.

[Dale Yarker]

Thanks. Went back into Help (8.03):

"Help | Data Types | Pointer Data Types |Pointers to ASCIIZ and fixed-length strings"

and found that syntax in examples for ASCIIZ only. Like I said, brain lock prevented making connection to fixed length (though obvious now).

Cheers,