Re: A86: Re: comparing strings

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Subject: Re: A86: Re: comparing strings
From: Dux Gregis <assets@eden.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 13:54:24 -0400
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That's what I was looking for, thanks.

Grams Family wrote:

> At 11:00 PM 4/23/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >I could just subtract two from the variable length (not counting the vat), if
> >you know where I could get that from.  Is it somewhere in the variable, or
> does
> >FINDSYM return the length somewhere?  I'd hate to find it by subtracting abs
> >addresses in the VAT.
> >
> The first word of the var data is the size. It's the same as the word you
> use for the corresponding create var call. There's a call (_get_var_size
> equ 477Fh) that gets the size of any variable. This should work...
>
> ld hl,name
> call _FINDSYM
> ex de,hl
> call _get_var_size
> ...
>
> _get_var_size takes the type in a (returned by _FINDSYM) and the pointer to
> the var data in bhl (_FINDSYM returns it in bde). It returns the size of
> the variable (in bytes) in de, and the var data ptr in ahl.
>
> --Joshua

References:

Re: A86: Re: comparing strings

From: "Trey Jazz" <joemama@minot.com>

Re: A86: Re: comparing strings

From: Grams Family <grams@netcarrier.com>