| From: | John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Tom Pfeifer" <tpfeifer(at)tela(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [Win2k - Version 8.0.2] - StartupMessage Format Question |
| Date: | 2005-05-15 01:47:45 |
| Message-ID: | c27fa316c78fea0047e957ef0f887227@pgedit.com |
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On May 14, 2005, at 8:04 PM, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> I don't know where to go with this question.
> If this is the wrong place, please disregard.
>
> I'm trying to learn more about how to connect to the backend with
> perl, not using DBI, just
> straight perl (pure perl). I feel like an idiot asking this question,
> but I don't seem to
> understand what the "zero byte" terminator is. What is the equivalent
> ASCII character? Or is perl
> unable to process this "zero byte" terminator?
>
The equivalent ASCII character is NULL, a non-printable character with
ASCII code 0.
So in your hex dump you should have 00 after each string. Looks like
you have a space (20)
75 73 65 72 20 70 6F 73 ..."....user pos
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL
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