Flag for PokeS() to suppress trailing zeroes...

[blueznl]

PokeS(*MemoryBuffer, Text$ [, Length [, Flags]])

Why not add a flag, for example #PB_Ascii | #PB_NoZero, so trailing zeroes are left out when we don't want them?

[AND51]

Yep, it'd be a good idea to implement such a feature. I often thought about an easy to use command that allows you to poke somewhere in the middle of a string, without cutting this string because of the stupid NULL.
Of course, there would be for example the way via pointers, but why not having a more comfortable way?

[Demivec]

PokeS(*MemoryBuffer, Text$ [, Length [, Flags]])

Why not add a flag, for example #PB_Ascii | #PB_NoZero, so trailing zeroes are left out when we don't want them?

Wouldn't this do the same thing, except without the benefit of flags?

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CopyMemory(@Text$, *MemoryBuffer, Len(Text$))

[tinman]

Wouldn't this do the same thing, except without the benefit of flags?

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CopyMemory(@Text$, *MemoryBuffer, Len(Text$))

You lose the string conversion option (e.g. Unicode->ASCII) if you use CopyMemory(). Or is that what you mean by "without the benefit of flags"?

[Demivec]

Wouldn't this do the same thing, except without the benefit of flags?

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CopyMemory(@Text$, *MemoryBuffer, Len(Text$))

You lose the string conversion option (e.g. Unicode->ASCII) if you use CopyMemory(). Or is that what you mean by "without the benefit of flags"?

Yes that is what I meant.

I guess you could include the "flags" for conversion by using:

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PokeS(*WorkBuffer, Text$ [, Length [, Flags]])
CopyMemory(*WorkBuffer, *MemoryBuffer, MemoryStringLength(*WorkBuffer [, Flags]))

The above suggestion would probably make this Feature Request sound much more desirable that jumping through all that convoluted code to accomplish the same thing.

[blueznl]

CopyMemory(@Text$, *MemoryBuffer, Len(Text$))

Ah... not Unicode friendly!

I wrote my own little PokeS() variant to avoid writing that terminating zero in fields where there is not enough space, what's throwing me off-balance all the time is that you specify how many bytes to write, and then PureBasic sneakily tries to help you and adds one or two zeroes

It's just a request, it's not on the top of my want list