[V4RB2] FindStartsWith crashes app

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 4/3/05 5:27 AM, "Kem Tekinay" <ktekinay at mactechnologies.com> wrote:

> On 4/2/05 4:18 PM, Ruslan Zasukhin at sunshine at public.kherson.ua wrote:
> 
>> So you mean that crash if PARAMETER of FindStartsWith() is null ?
> 
> No. If FindStartsWith does not find any matches, it returns nil.
> 
> For example, if my data has "123" and "1234" in it, and I use
> fld.FindStartsWith("123"), I get a good VSet. But fld.FindStartsWith("567")
> returns nil.
> 
> If I use fld.FindContains("888"), I properly get an empty VSet.

Actually FindContains() also should return nil.

It is better because then we eat LESS Memory.
And we do not spend time to create/delete set objects.

> The crash occurs is I try a Union with nil. For example, where bs is a valid
> VSet, bs.Union(nil) will crash.

Kem,

It is YOUR responsibility to check nil pointers.

But yes, bs.Union(nil) should not crash.

Ivan fix this right now


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