I had a similar problem, could you be more specific?
-----Mensaje original-----
De: Young S. Cho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Grupos de noticias: palm-dev-forum
Para: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fecha: Jueves, 01 de Febrero de 2001 05:49 p.m.
Asunto: Garbage characters appended when text inserted/read from DB
>Hi all,
>
>I'm writing simple Palm DB code to write text strings to the database and
>then to read it back. However, when I read the values back, I'm getting
>garbage characters appended to my text string. Now, I'm not sure whether
the
>garbage is getting added at the insert or read, but has anyone seen
>something similar to this?
>
>Thanks for any advice or suggestions...
>
>Young Cho
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>The code fragment looks something like this:
>
>------- Code to write & read from the DB
>
>// Open the database - my routine to create the DB and to open it
>
>error = OpenDB(appDatabaseName, 'DATA', appCreatorID);
>
>iIndex = WriteDB("Test message1\0", 0);
>
>iIndex = WriteDB("Test message2\0", 1);
>
>for(iIndex = 0;iIndex < GetNumRecords();iIndex++)
>
>{
>
> record = ReadDB(iIndex);
>
> StrPrintF(msg, "%2d:[%s]\n", iIndex, record);
>
> DisplayMessage(msg);
>
>}
>
>error = CloseDB();
>
>
>
>----- WriteDB looks like this ------
>
>UInt16 WriteDB(char *pText, UInt16 iRecPos)
>
>{
>
>char *pTmpPtr;
>
>Err error;
>
>MemHandle newRecordH;
>
>newRecordH = DmNewRecord(gLibDB, &iRecPos, StrLen(pText));
>
>pTmpPtr = MemHandleLock(newRecordH);
>
>error = DmWrite(pTmpPtr, 0, pText, StrLen(pText));
>
>MemHandleUnlock(newRecordH);
>
>// Unset the record's busy bit
>
>DmReleaseRecord(gLibDB, iRecPos, true);
>
>return(iRecPos);
>
>}
>
>
>
>----- ReadDB looks like this -----
>
>char * ReadDB(UInt16 iRecPos)
>
>{
>
>Char *pText = NULL;
>
>MemHandle recordH;
>
>static char datatext[1024];
>
>MemSet(&datatext, sizeof(datatext), 0);
>
>recordH = DmQueryRecord(gLibDB, iRecPos);
>
>pText = MemHandleLock(recordH);
>
>StrPrintF(datatext, "%s\0", pText);
>
>MemHandleUnlock(recordH);
>
>return(datatext);
>
>}
>
>
>
>
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