Thanks much! Works great. I was omitting the part of null terminating the
converted string.
Dave
Richard Burmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> > From: David Leland
> >
> > I am trying to use TxtTransliterate to convert a string to
> > either upper or lower case, but am having trouble. I've
> > never worked with any of the Txt functions so that may be
> > part of my problem.
> >
>
> I haven't ever used it, either, but I was curious so I took a look at it.
> The only tricky part is the ioDstLength parameter, which upon entry to the
> function is the maximum length of outDstText and upon return is the actual
> length of outDstText. Since the function converts a specified number of
> bytes, not necessarily an entire string, the result may not be null
> terminated. Here is one way to use it to convert a string to uppercase:
>
> static Err makeUpper(Char * outDstText, Char * inSrcText)
> {
> // I assume outDstText is at least as big as inSrcText
> UInt16 ioDstLength = StrLen(inSrcText);
> Err err;
>
> // convert string
> err = TxtTransliterate (inSrcText, StrLen(inSrcText),
> outDstText, &ioDstLength, translitOpUpperCase);
>
> // terminate the converted string
> if (!err)
> outDstText[ioDstLength] = '\0';
> return err;
> }
>
> I'm sure that others will find this code lacking in some way, but it
> illustrates one way to use TxtTransliterate.
>
>
>
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