RE: oracle Pro C question

I am not aware of anyway to have the c variable automatically null terminated. I 'd be curious to
know if mode=.. works. After you do a select ...into or fetch into a C variable you would NULL terminate by
c_variable[oracle_variable.len]='\0';

Rick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Srinivasan Subramanian kandallu [SMTP:srinivasan.kandallu_at_WIPRO.COM]
> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 9:02 AM
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> Subject: RE: oracle Pro C question
>
> If your table has a column of width 200, in ur pro*c program, you should
> always declare variable of size+1,ie.,in ur case it should be declared as
> char mystring[201].
>
> Null termination is depend on the compilation parameters you use, like
> mode=ansi/oracle etc
>
> Srini
>
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>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jamie Pearce
> > Sent: 01 September 2000 17:25
> > To: John Dunn
> > Subject: oracle question
> >
> > Can you post this piss easy question to your Oracle group - I've wasted
> > too much time trying to do it.
> >
> > I have an Oracle field on a table defined as VARCHAR2(200) and a C host
> > variable defined as char mystring[200].
> >
> > How do I select the oracle field in to the C host variable so that a
> null
> > character automatically gets appended to the string?
> > e.g. if the Oracle field contained "hello" then the C host variable
> would
> > contain "hello\0" with no extra blanks?
> >
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