Re: [Swig-devel] Perl5 SwigSvToString returns truncated string

[Jason S. <jas...@gm...>]

Hey Stephen,

On 9/5/06, ste...@jp... <ste...@jp...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looks like an old bug got re-introduced into SwigSvToString in
> Perl5/std_common.i that causes strings to be truncated on embedded nulls.
>
> I'm using the latest version, 1.3.29.
>
> Culprit:
>
> std::string SwigSvToString(SV* sv) {
>     STRLEN len;
>     return SvPV(sv,len);
> }
>
> Can be fixed with:
>
> std::string SwigSvToString(SV* sv) {
>     STRLEN len;
>     char *ptr = SvPV(sv,len);
>     return std::string(ptr, len);
> }
>

Yup, that looks like a bug. Thanks for the patch.

jas.