Well i do believe that the zval string SHOULD be null termiated and have the
length stored.

 But zend does provied this api function

zend_binary_zval_strcmp(zval *, zval*);

 - Brad 

--- Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
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