Re: Couple ?s

"Andy Kennedy" <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx> ???????/???????? ? ???????? ?????????: news:44498bc9.65c.41@xxxxxxxx
Question 1 concerning the RegQueryValueEx API
REG_BINARY

When it says binary data in any form, what does that
specifically entail.
(as opposed to REG_SZ used for strings)

The differences deal with null-chars and A / W issues.
A value of REG_SZ type must contain no embedded nulls.
Also when you use A or W version of the API, the system returns "ansi" or "unicode" version of the string.
REG_BINARY value can contain any "chars" (more precisely
the term "character" is not applicable, this is just a byte sequence) and returned data is not dependent on A
or W version of the API.

Also you should pay some attention to buffer length in the case when you allocate it after first call the API with a small or null buffer to determine the length (+/-1 issues).

Question 2
How can I automate this to check for multiple characters in
a string. I tried a
inc esi statement.

lea esi, szBigBuffer[0] ;look at 1st character in buffer
for a match
lodsb

.if EAX==31h ; the '1' character

?

.

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