Subj : strange string behavior
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : panders
Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 10:56 am

Borland 6

I am copying a string from an edit box to a string object.  In the edit box 
the string is "test" - when it is copied to the string object it copies as 
"test~1`*" with additional invalid characters appended to the edit box 
string.  I have checked the lengths of both the edit "test" and the copied 
"test~1`*" and both are length = 4.

can anyone tell me why I might be seeing this bizarre behavior?  When I 
write the copied string to a file I get the same garbage invalid characters 
as I see in my debug.

thanks!

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