Has NthArgument changed?

May 20, 2008
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Code like this, at the beginning of a plugin function
Code:
INT WINAPI PLUGGO ( WCHAR *psz )
{
   Printf(L"psz: %s\r\n", psz);
   WCHAR *pArgs = NthArgument(psz, 0, NULL, NULL);
   Printf(L"Args: %s\r\n", pArgs);
suggests that NthArgument behaves differently in v17 from how it behaved in v16. Calling this function with args
Code:
e f
gives me
Code:
psz:  e f
Args: e f
in v16, and
Code:
psz:  e f
Args: e
in v17.
 

rconn

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May 14, 2008
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Since your example is meaningless, I presume your real issue is something a bit different.

Yes, NthArgument changed in v17. It was removed, and replaced with a renamed function that processes string classes. A stub wrapper named NthArgument was kept, but it doesn't support the "..., NULL, NULL)" format. (Was that ever even documented?) If you are trying to get a pointer to the remainder of the string following argument n (not argument 0 as in your example), use the "nthptr" fourth argument.
 
May 20, 2008
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Since your example is meaningless, I presume your real issue is something a bit different.

Yes, NthArgument changed in v17. It was removed, and replaced with a renamed function that processes string classes. A stub wrapper named NthArgument was kept, but it doesn't support the "..., NULL, NULL)" format. (Was that ever even documented?) If you are trying to get a pointer to the remainder of the string following argument n (not argument 0 as in your example), use the "nthptr" fourth argument.
I've used that syntax as a quick way to bypass leading whitespace in the function's string argument. How will using ppNthPtr help?
It's no big deal; easy enough to bypass leading whitespace by other means. The hard part might be finding all the places I relied on that behavior.
 
May 20, 2008
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That's a truly horrible perversion of that function. It's far simpler (and about 1000x faster) to skip white space with the SkipWhiteSpace function.
Yeah, well ... that goes way back. I even have my own StripWhiteSpace function. In the case in point, I can even simply increment psz until it' non-white.
 
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// skip past leading white space and return pointer to first non-space char
DLLExports LPCTSTR SkipWhiteSpace( LPCTSTR pszLine )
{
while (( *pszLine == _TEXT(' ') ) || ( *pszLine == _TEXT('\t') ))
pszLine++;
return pszLine;
}
I did just that inline. For as long as I can, I'll stay away from exports that differ in various TCC versions (LPWSTR vs. LPCWSTR).
 

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