Parameter | Description |
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pSource | The address of a null terminated string |
eCodeType | The type of string encoding, which may be OEM (CP_OEMCP), ANSI (CP_ACP) or UTF-8 (CP_UTF8) |
The string is converted to UTF-16 Unicode and returned it as a Variant string
Function VariantStrFromBuffer Pointer pSource Integer eCodeType Returns Variant
Call: | Get VariantStrFromBuffer pSource eCodeType to VariantVariable |
VariantStrFromBuffer creates a Variant String from an OEM, ANSI or UTF-8 memory buffer.
You are responsible for eventually disposing of the newly created memory buffer.
See discussion in the cCharTranslate class overview about the advantages and disadvantage of using the Variant String type.
Use Windows.pkg Use cCharTranslate.pkg Object oCharTranslate is a cCharTranslate End_Object Procedure TestVariantBuffer1 Address aUTF8Buffer Integer iVoid Variant vVar vVar2 Move "Test String-Ññóí" to vVar // Move Variant (utf-16) to utf-8 buffer Get VariantStrToBuffer of oCharTranslate vVar CP_UTF8 to aUTF8Buffer // Move UTF8 Buffer to variant (utf-16) Get VariantStrFromBuffer of oCharTranslate aUTF8Buffer CP_UTF8 to vVar2 If (vVar<>vVar2) Begin Send Info_Box "Test Failed" End Move (Free(aUTF8Buffer)) to iVoid End_Procedure Send TestVariantBuffer1See Also
VariantStrToBuffer | VariantStrFromStr | VariantStrToStr | VariantStrFromUTF16 | VariantStrToUTF16 | Free()