Re: Probably a simple answer...

brad lafountain wrote: > > Well i do believe that the zval string SHOULD be null termiated and have the > length stored. You would think so, but on further thought, if that were the case you wouldn't be able to store compressed data from gzip in a string because the null bytes everywhere would interfere. Also, as I said, ZVAL_STRING suggests that this is so... since when you use it to set a zval container to a string it saves the length as strlen( passedString ), rather than strlen( passedString ) + 1, also the memcpy then uses this length to copy the string if you set the copy flag to true. Cheers, Rob. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > But zend does provied this api function > > zend_binary_zval_strcmp(zval *, zval*); > > - Brad > > --- Robert Cummings <robert.cummings@webmotion.com> wrote: > > zval containers that are of string type don't seem to hold > > a null terminating character, but rather directly store the > > length of the string - I note this because of how the > > ZVAL_STRING macro works... My question then is what is the > > best way to compare two strings in a zval? I would imagine > > a macro or function would already exist, and I'm quite sure > > that the following simple invocation is asking for trouble: > > > > strcmp( Z_STRVAL_P( target1 ), Z_STRVAL_P( target2 ) ) == 0 > > > > Thanks for any information. > > > > Cheers, > > Rob. > > -- > > .-----------------. > > | Robert Cummings | > > :-----------------`----------------------------. > > | Webdeployer - Chief PHP and Java Programmer | > > :----------------------------------------------: > > | Mail : mailto:robert.cummings@webmotion.com | > > | Phone : (613) 731-4046 x.109 | > > :----------------------------------------------: > > | Website : http://www.webmotion.com | > > | Fax : (613) 260-9545 | > > `----------------------------------------------' > > > > -- > > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience > http://launch.yahoo.com -- .-----------------. | Robert Cummings | :-----------------`----------------------------. | Webdeployer - Chief PHP and Java Programmer | :----------------------------------------------: | Mail : mailto:robert.cummings@webmotion.com | | Phone : (613) 731-4046 x.109 | :----------------------------------------------: | Website : http://www.webmotion.com | | Fax : (613) 260-9545 | `----------------------------------------------'