Re: ARGetEntry entryId length

[Joel M. <jm...@ca...>]

> Hi there,
> 
> I have successfully built arsperl on IRIX 6.2 (alpha), with some
> very minor changes, which I think were just issues with the
> latest compiler.  At some point I will try compiling on 5.3 and
> see if I have more fluid (change-free) luck.
> 
> The problem I was having before (if any of you recall) was that
> the version of perl was a pruned one, which did not contain all
> the header files and the like, but rather only the files needed
> for run-time.

glad to here it works...

> Anyway, on to the main topic of this particular mailing...
> 
> in the ARGetEntry call in ARS.c, (line 1621 of the version I
> have), the third argument is ``pad_entry'', which is of type
> AREntryIdType, and which is set up to be padded with 0's to the
> length of 15 characters.
> 
> This probably ought to be dynamic, based on the
> ARFieldLimitStruct returned by ARGetField.  I have a schema with
> a 10 character long entryId, and it seems that it is impossible
> to get any records out of it using arsperl.

Hmm, I never used entry ids other than the default 15 numeric characters
so I didn't catch this one.  Apparently, entry-ids can have text as well,
so I just removed the zero padding hack.  I'll add a ARS::pad_entryid
function that will do the right amount of padding, and post a diff.