As I understand it, Delphi strings are 8-bit clean and can contain null
characters.  However when I pass a string containing a null character as
 a parameter to a remote server function it gets truncated at the other
end.  I can work around this by using a Blob instead, but it's
inconvenient.  Is this by design?


  Oliver

Oliver,

<< As I understand it, Delphi strings are 8-bit clean and can contain null
characters.  However when I pass a string containing a null character as  a
parameter to a remote server function it gets truncated at the other end.  I
can work around this by using a Blob instead, but it's inconvenient.  Is
this by design? >>

It's accidentally by design.  The nature of strings in DBISAM are that
they are null-terminated at the engine level, hence the translation back and
forth from Delphi strings results in truncation.  ElevateDB doesn't have
this issue because it uses Delphi strings and widestrings and not
null-terminated strings.  However, I would also recommend against passing
around NULL characters in strings in general.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com