RE: %str() use discouraged?

Null terminated or not, the string compare is done only with the shortest string which is not null-terminated (the literal *right* part of the comparison)

My point is that $str is futile and useless in this case

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From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 14:48
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: %str() use discouraged?

On 2020-04-23 9:33 a.m., Francois Lavoie wrote:

If getenv returns a null-terminated string then the statement should be:

If getenv('ENV_VAR') = %str('Literal value here');

I don't think that will work.

Justin's original code is correct
If %str(getenv('ENV_VAR')) = 'Literal value here';

getenv() returns a pointer to a null-terminated string. %str() returns the value of the string that the pointer is pointing to.

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Barbara

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