Return a String From Its Pointer

Category:

String Manipulation

Type:

Snippets

Difficulty:

Intermediate

Author:

Intelligent Solutions Inc.

Version Compatibility: Visual Basic 6

More information:

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Instructions: Copy the declarations and code below and paste directly into your VB project.

Declarations:
Option Explicit Private Declare Sub CopyMemory Lib "kernel32" _ Alias "RtlMoveMemory" (Destination As Any, Source As Any, _ ByVal Length As Long) Private Declare Function lstrlenA Lib "kernel32" _ (ByVal lpString As Long) As Long Private Declare Function lstrlenW Lib _ "kernel32" (ByVal lpString As Long) As Long

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