From: Art Cancro <ajc@citadel.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 05:39:36 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: CM_SetField() and CM_SetAsField() now accept -1 as a length to have the function... 
X-Git-Tag: v939~229
X-Git-Url: https://code.citadel.org/?p=citadel.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=f72c1373a7376a3fb909995b32e45f828f9e3913

CM_SetField() and CM_SetAsField() now accept -1 as a length to have the function measure the field for the caller.
---

diff --git a/citadel/msgbase.c b/citadel/msgbase.c
index ae745958b..0bc88bf08 100644
--- a/citadel/msgbase.c
+++ b/citadel/msgbase.c
@@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ void CM_SetField(struct CtdlMessage *Msg, eMsgField which, const char *buf, long
 	if (Msg->cm_fields[which] != NULL) {
 		free (Msg->cm_fields[which]);
 	}
+	if (length < 0) {			// You can set the length to -1 to have CM_SetField measure it for you
+		length = strlen(buf);
+	}
 	Msg->cm_fields[which] = malloc(length + 1);
 	memcpy(Msg->cm_fields[which], buf, length);
 	Msg->cm_fields[which][length] = '\0';
@@ -256,7 +259,12 @@ void CM_SetAsField(struct CtdlMessage *Msg, eMsgField which, char **buf, long le
 
 	Msg->cm_fields[which] = *buf;
 	*buf = NULL;
-	Msg->cm_lengths[which] = length;
+	if (length < 0) {			// You can set the length to -1 to have CM_SetField measure it for you
+		Msg->cm_lengths[which] = strlen(buf);
+	}
+	else {
+		Msg->cm_lengths[which] = length;
+	}
 }