Oh no...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 11:55 AM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Re: StrIToA
>
>
> "McMicken, Steven" wrote:
> > Before using the pointer, you must allocate space for the
> string using
> > MemPtrNew (LengthOfStringPlusOne) or by setting the pointer
> equal to a
> > character array name, such as,
> > char str[5];
> > CharPtr s = str;
>
> Shouldn't you use "Char str[5]" instead? I'm still confused about how
> Palm handles characters, but I think that in some locales, a character
> is more than one byte. To be fully portable, I think you need to
> declare all strings as type "Char" and when allocating space use
> MemPtrNew((strlen+1)*sizeof(Char)) (or MemHandleNew). Note that all
> string manager functions expect type "Char" not "char".
>
> Cheers,
> --Scott
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