Manipulating binary strings

Declare strings of binary data as one of the MQBYTEn data types.

Whenever you copy, compare, or set fields of this type, use the C functions memcpy, memcmp, or memset ; for example:

#include <string.h>
#include "cmqc.h"

MQMD MyMsgDesc;
 
memcpy(MyMsgDesc.MsgId,           /* set "MsgId" field to nulls    */
       MQMI_NONE,                 /* ...using named constant       */
       sizeof(MyMsgDesc.MsgId));
 
memset(MyMsgDesc.CorrelId,        /* set "CorrelId" field to nulls */
       0x00,                      /* ...using a different method   */
       sizeof(MQBYTE24));

Do not use the string functions strcpy, strcmp, strncpy, or strncmp, because these do not work correctly for data declared with the MQBYTEn data types.

Parent topic: C programming