Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!paperboy!snorkelwacker!apple!keith
From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Trouble with using Munger
Message-ID: <42936@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Jul 90 19:44:06 GMT
References: <477@psych.psy.uq.oz.au> <42915@apple.Apple.COM> <11122@claris.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <11122@claris.com> drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen) writes:
>keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:
>
>>In article <477@psych.psy.uq.oz.au> strasser@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (Michael Strasser) writes:
>>>Given:
>>>
>>>	VAR
>>>		aChar : Char;
>>>		text : Handle;
>>>		offset : LONGINT;
>>>		where : LONGINT;
>>>
>>>I have text set correctly (I've checked this), and offset set to 0.  
>>>I then try to find the first tab character in a string which I know 
>>>contains at least one tab using:
>>>
>>>	aChar := chTab;
>>>	where := Munger(text, offset, @aChar, 1, NIL, 0);
>>>
>>>but Munger returns -1, signifying that the string was not found.
>
>>You're passing a pointer to the length byte of "aChar", rather than the
>>first character of aChar. Try:
>
>>	where := Munger(text, offset @aChar[1], Length(aChar), NIL, 0);
>
>Keith, since when does a Char have a length byte?  This cannot be the
>problem as stated.  I don't know what he has as a value for chTab, but
>I'd be curious since the code he has works for me when I try it.

Merde. I don't know why I assumed that aChar was a string, especially
since the variable declaration was given. You are, of course, correct.

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