At 9:15 PM -0500 4/4/05, John E. Malmberg wrote: >In MM_VMS.PM, there is a comment that unixify will sometimes return a >string with an off-by-one trailing null. > >And what does that mean? More than one null terminator?
Perl strings are roughly equivalent to dynamic string descriptors on VMS. The length is stored internally so you shouldn't see the null byte from Perl. It looks like there was a bad length calculation at some point or other problem that caused the length to include the null. This workaround apparently came into the core with the following patch, though may have been in an independent release of MM before that: http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?patch=19099 >Do you have a reproducer for that problem? No, but the following bug fix from just about a year ago may be related: http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?patch=22544 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.vmsperl/12349 -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
