REDIM, TYPE, and STRING Woes

[TerryRitchie]

I've run into trouble using UDT's when I assume after a ReDim _Preserve that the new values are 0 or "" for numbers or strings.

Supposedly the numbers and fixed strings were fixed according to Luke if I recall but variable length strings had to initilized to "" otherwise they pick up garbage from the string pointers to uncleared meomory, something like that.

@TerryRichie could it be possible you were assuming new variable length strings were "" after a ReDim _Preserve ?

Perhaps also, whatever was fixed back when Luke checked it became unfixed with all the updates made since, like with assumed 0 of new integers created with ReDim _preserve?

I will write some test code...

I just posted a controller library in the library section. If you change the "Name AS STRING * 20" in "TYPE TYPE__SLOT" to "Name AS STRING" in the CONTROLLER.BI file you'll see the errors start to happen.