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Re: trailing null on strings

From: James Ponder <james AT squish.net>
To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: trailing null on strings
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:02:17 +0100

On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 08:02:49AM -0400, Brian Bruns wrote:
> Here is the problem. The bindfmt is 66! which is totally not valid, it

I made ct_bind print out the given format, and it was 66. So I added
a printf before every ct_bind in DBD::Sybase and re-installed. It printed
0. It got the string 'hello' without a null terminator. I cried ;(

Sigh sigh sigh. I think the scenario probably went...

* I didn't have FreeTDS or DBD::Sybase. I installed 0.50 and 0.23. There
was a bug in 0.50 which meant nulls were added.
* I upgraded FreeTDS and somehow DBD::Sybase wasn't re-installed (although
I remember re-installing it <shrug>). The bug was fixed in FreeTDS but
now DBD::Sybase was passing the wrong value and so I still got null
terminated strings.
* I have now re-installed DBD::Sybase and don't get any nulls.

Lord give me strength.

Best wishes, James
--
James Ponder; www.squish.net

Re: trailing null on strings, James Ponder, 10/19/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: trailing null on strings, Bob Kline, 10/19/2000
- Re: trailing null on strings, Brian Bruns, 10/19/2000
- Re: trailing null on strings, James Ponder, 10/19/2000
- Re: trailing null on strings, Michael Peppler, 10/19/2000