Try taking the address of NULL, that should shake the grey cells a bit ;-) There is a world of difference between NULL and "", and indeed, in your case a world of pain as well!
if (ceRecord.note != NULL)
{
}
When I drop into the debugger and look at what ceRecord.note is, it is "".
Why is my if statement failing?
"" is a string! Admittedly it has zero length according to StrLen(), but in fact it has a real length of 1(one) char, the value of that char is zero, 0, \0, NULL, nadda, whatever. Assuming that ceRecord.note is typed as char*, then your test fails because ceRecord.note IS NOT NULL, it is pointing a a piece of memory that contains a zero length string. Therefore it will NOT be NULL.
I remember getting stymied a few times way back when learning Smalltalk. Thank god it was all over before Java became flavour of the month!
Sean Charles.
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