FoldStringA (using W version)

[Shachar Shemesh]

Rolf Kalbermatter wrote:

>Jon Griffiths [mailto:jon_p_griffiths at yahoo.com] wrote:
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>>>+        goto FoldStringA_exit;
>>>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>No allocation has been done yet, just "return 0;" would be
>>>enough!
>>>      
>>>
>>Indeed, although the above is functionally identical. Feel free to
>>submit a patch if you feel strongly about it...
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>>>Interesting idea, but I wonder how you can distinguish between
>>>equal 0 and FALSE without some real magic!
>>>Same applies to lstrcmpi
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>>No magic required. Use GetLastError(), just like it says.
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>Well so you want to say, if I want to test strings for equality
>I do first have to call GetLastError() to check if it was an error
>or if they are really equal?
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>This won't work as by definition a WinAPI function is usually not
>supposed to reset the last error if no error has occurred, so
>GetLastError() may return an error even though the strings were
>just simply equal.
>
>So I think that documentation is just simply wrong, also MSDN
>doesn't say anything about this function returning any error
>indication.
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>Rolf Kalbermatter 
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You can also do "SetLastError(ERROR_SUCCESS)" first yourself. That's 
also there in the docs.

             Shachar

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