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From: jkc@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Kevin Calhoun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: String2Date (Script Manager 2.0)
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Date: 16 Mar 89 23:11:22 GMT
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Reply-To: jkc@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Kevin Calhoun)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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I take back all the nasty things I wrote (and thought) about the
new Script Manager routine String2Date.  I wrote:

>  err := InitDateCache(@myDateCache);
> if err = noErr then
>    string2dateResult := String2Date(h^, GetHandleSize(h)-1,
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>         @myDateCache, lengthUsed, dateTime);

The problem here is that h is actually much larger than the text
that represents the date I want to convert.  If I make this

   err := InitDateCache(@myDateCache);
   if err = noErr then
     string2dateResult := String2Date(h^, StringLength(paramPtr, h^),
          @myDateCache, lengthUsed, dateTime);

then everything is as hunky as it is dorey.

So, sorry if I ruffled the feathers of the folks who worked on the
Script Manager.  The documentation warns that it's very sensitive to
garbage input, and that's no joke.


-- Kevin Calhoun
   Courseware Development
   Dartmouth College