strings

[Ahmad Zaman]

I need a winPowerbasic DLL that exports a function that returns a simple string eg "Hello World", which I can consume within a .Net App (therefore the .Net App needs to be able to reference this DLL as well). I would like to know the simplest string type that can support this type of functionality

[StanHelton]

STRING

What sort of input will the DLL take? Or do you want it to generate random strings?

Stan

[Chris Holbrook]

can your .NET handle zero-terminated ANSI strings, or do you need Unicode. Do you have a compiler, BTW? There is good stuff in the help system.

[Ahmad Zaman]

strings

Thanks for the input but I've sorted it out

[Kev Peel]

JFYI: ASCIIZ is the most compatible string type since it is needed by most compilers to call Windows API functions.

Even VB supports ASCIIZ (VB is lying when you name a parameter BYVAL STRING, in fact it uses ASCIIZ internally to handle the parameter). All the .NET languages can use ASCIIZ parameters as well.