Re: passing a string to a dll

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Yeah, but writing

if(!s.Compare(_T("12345"))

is even more confusing than

if(s.Compare(_T("12345")) == 0)

I think == and Compare evaluate to the same code, but CompareNoCase() is definitely useful. I wish there were a FindNoCase() equivalent.

Tom

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if(s != _T("12345") )
...

if( s.Compare( _T("12345") ) )

Ah, but you would really need:

if( s.Compare( _T("12345") == 0 ) )

No. Compare() returns non-zero if the strings differ - like strcmp().

if (s != _T("12345") )
which illustrates the intent perfectly.

I agree it looks nicer. But as I say it leaves me a little nervous, if irrationally so. [Not *that* irrational, otherwise the OP wouldn't have had a problem!]

But I don't go for all that ==0 stuff. I was using C long enough to get used to writing

if( n )

for any integer type. Similarly I never write if( p!=NULL ) for pointers but just if(p). And things like

TCHAR *psz;
...
if( psz && *psz ) ....

The idiom is now so familiar that I no longer feel the need for my usual degree of pedantry :-)

Dave
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