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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon Watte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: List Manager Strangeness
Message-ID: <3039@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 28 Feb 90 11:01:04 GMT
References: <20392@bellcore.bellcore.com> <10841@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <10841@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
>The following code is extracted from one of my programs.  Basically, it

Did it work ( the program ) ? 

>	strcpy(&theText,"Helvitica");

>		LGetCell(&listText,&dataLen,theCell,localList);
>		listText[dataLen] = 0;
>		if ( strcmp(&theText,&listText) == 0)

listText is declared as char *, right ? So when you do LGetCell,
you get a char pointer, and you dereference it with offset dataLen.
The problem is, why do you send the address of this pointer to strcmp ?
And, if theText is a pointer as well, you're not doing the right
thing (in fact, you cannot take the address of an array in C...)

or am i riding alone in never-never land again ?

>Be careful that either both strings are C strings, or both are Pascal strings.
>If they are C strings, make sure they are null-terminated.

And if they are pascal strings, of course you cannot use strcmp()

Best thing to do is using EqualString (you'll have to convert C strings
to pascal things, of course) with diacritical sensitivity to TRUE and
case sensitivity to FALSE (Note: In sweden, the A and O with dots over
them come at the end of the alphabet, so the SFGetFile that places OE
right after O is very disturbing. Apple; take note !)

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