lstrcmp [masm32]

[Metis]

I am trying to get the following program to work, I need this option for a program I am writing, but it only works when I use the following line to read into the buffer:

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invoke StdIn,addr buffer,4


as soon as I change the '4' into a longer value it won't work anymore...

is there a workaround for this?

Program code:

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.386
.model flat,stdcall
option casemap:none

include \masm32\include\windows.inc
include \masm32\include\kernel32.inc
include \masm32\include\user32.inc
include \masm32\include\masm32.inc

includelib \masm32\lib\kernel32.lib
includelib \masm32\lib\user32.lib
includelib \masm32\lib\masm32.lib

.data

string1 db "Enter: ",0
string2 db 13,10,"equal",0
string3 db 13,10,"not equal",0
teststring db "exit",0
test2 db "exit",0
buffer db 50 dup (?)
vier db "4",0
.code

start:

invoke StdOut,addr string1
invoke StdIn,addr buffer,6
invoke lstrcmpA,addr test2,addr buffer
.if eax==0
invoke StdOut,addr string2
invoke ExitProcess,0
.endif
invoke StdOut,addr string3
invoke ExitProcess,0

end start



I've tried adding the ending [color=blue 13 and 10 (CR and LF)[/color] to the buffer and then it works. But this will not work for my program since I need to compare the userinput with the strings generated by the Process32Next API...

Piece of my real program code:
Code:

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invoke Process32Next,[Snap],offset proc32

;if we have finished the last process listing
;------------------------------------------------------
.if eax!=TRUE
jmp again
.endif
;------------------------------------------------------

invoke lstrcmpA, addr ProcToKill,addr proc32.szExeFile
.if eax == 0
jmp contin
.endif


[Joe[x86]]

I've tried adding the ending [color=blue 13 and 10 (CR and LF)[/color] to the buffer and then it works. But this will not work for my program since I need to compare the userinput with the strings generated by the Process32Next API...

Can't you do something like this, except not in Java?..

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if(userinput + "\n\r" == process32nextret)
{
  //stuff
}

[MyndFyre]

x86] link=topic=11209.msg111190#msg111190 date=1115328175]

I've tried adding the ending [color=blue 13 and 10 (CR and LF)[/color] to the buffer and then it works. But this will not work for my program since I need to compare the userinput with the strings generated by the Process32Next API...

Can't you do something like this, except not in Java?..

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if(userinput + "\n\r" == process32nextret)
{
  //stuff
}

Joe, he wasn't talking about appending a newline to a string.  The strings returned from Process32Next are going to be inside of a structure and null-terminated.  And the lovely string concatenation you use in Java is much more memory-intensive that it seems because you have to generally have to reallocate the string somewhere else in memory.

I'm not familiar with StdIn.  Could you maybe use something like getchar()?

[Metis]

It has been about a month since I posted my problem and since then I've fixed the error, thank you anyway.