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. > -- > .-----------------. > | Robert Cummings | > :-----------------`----------------------------. > | Webdeployer - Chief PHP and Java Programmer | > :----------------------------------------------: > | Mail : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | 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 -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php