[Win32utils-devel] PathFindExtension and wide strings

[Daniel Berger]

Heesob Park wrote:
> 2008/11/11 Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger at qwest.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What's happening here?
>>
>> require 'windows/path'
>> require 'windows/unicode'
>>
>> include Windows::Path
>> include Windows::Unicode
>>
>> file_a = 'bar.txt'
>> file_w = multi_to_wide(file_a)
>>
>> p PathFindExtensionA(file_a) # '.txt' => OK
>> p PathFindExtensionW(file_w) # '.'    => WRONG
>>
>> Is Ruby chopping the result because of an embedding null? How do we deal
>> with it?
>>
> The result is chopped by this code in api.c:
> 
>       case _T_STRING:
>          v_return = rb_str_new2((TCHAR*)return_value);
>          break;
> 
> In case of Unicode something like this would be possible:
> 
>       case _T_STRING:
>          v_return = rb_str_new((TCHAR*)return_value,
> wcslen((wchar_t*)return_value));
>          break;

Ah, yes, thanks.

That will work for ANSI, too, won't it? I don't have my C dev environment setup 
on this laptop yet (I've been lazy), so I can't test.

If it will work for both Unicode and ANSI then please test and commit the change 
if all goes well. If not, what do you recommend?

Thanks,

Dan