On 12 dec 2005, at 08:12, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
StrPos is expecting 2 PChar params and not a Pointer.
Please use PChar(lFrom) and PChar(lSearch) to let the compiler
make the proper string to PChar conversion.
You never ever can cast a string to a pchar using Pointer()
I see your point, and amended my code. Nonetheless, Delphi never
through a AV. I see Jonas created a fix for it though.
It is very dangerous to rely on undocumented behaviour. At least the
TP documentation does not specify what happens if you pass a null
pchar to strpos, I don't know about Delphi. If you typecast an
ansistring to a pchar, then the compiler makes sure that if the
ansistring is empty (and thus a null pointer), a valid pointer to an
empty null-terminated string is returned.
Jonas
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