> but the string "abc" is not 4 bytes long, no matter how you count.
Yes, sorry to cause confusion there, the -2 got in there as in my testing setup there was always a space before the string to find. This is not really to do with the problem I am seeing though. RBS On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:22 AM, Igor Tandetnik <igor at tandetnik.org> wrote: > On 12/14/2015 7:42 PM, Bart Smissaert wrote: > >> Yes, str and str2 are Unicode string, 2 bytes per character. >> lPos counts per character, not byte, so if the string in the database is >> abcde and I want to find the first position >> of d in that string then lPos will be 4. >> > > ... and then you pass (lPos-2)*2 == 4 - but the string "abc" is not 4 > bytes long, no matter how you count. > > You are converting in one direction (SQLite to VB), but not in the other >>> >> I thought SQLite would handle VB Unicode strings to UTF8 strings >> > > It would, if you use the correct API function, so that SQLite knows that > the string is in fact Unicode. > > -- > Igor Tandetnik > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users >
