https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Archicad-C-API/Problems-with-String-functions/m-p/94628#M7367 <BLOCKQUOTE>Marius wrote:<BR />Hy there!<BR /> <BR /> I'm having a lot of troubles recently in developing Archicad add-ons because I can't any &lt;string.h&gt; function to work. It seems that when encountering a call to one of these functions, the add-on simply stops. Any ideas?</BLOCKQUOTE> Don't use any standard C/C++ functions in conjunction with the ArchiCAD API. They make assumptions about the string representation that aren't necessarily true (hence the crashes). Use the ArchiCAD API String Manager instead (refer to the GSRoot documentation, subsection on String Manager). Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:56:40 GMT Ralph Wessel 2007-02-14T16:56:40Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Archicad-C-API/Problems-with-String-functions/m-p/94627#M7366 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content">Hy there!<BR /><BR />I'm having a lot of troubles recently in developing Archicad add-ons because I can't any &lt;string.h&gt; function to work. It seems that when encountering a call to one of these functions, the add-on simply stops. Any ideas?</DIV> Mon, 07 Aug 2023 08:43:32 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Archicad-C-API/Problems-with-String-functions/m-p/94627#M7366 Anonymous 2023-08-07T08:43:32Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Archicad-C-API/Problems-with-String-functions/m-p/94628#M7367 <BLOCKQUOTE>Marius wrote:<BR />Hy there!<BR /> <BR /> I'm having a lot of troubles recently in developing Archicad add-ons because I can't any &lt;string.h&gt; function to work. It seems that when encountering a call to one of these functions, the add-on simply stops. Any ideas?</BLOCKQUOTE> Don't use any standard C/C++ functions in conjunction with the ArchiCAD API. They make assumptions about the string representation that aren't necessarily true (hence the crashes). Use the ArchiCAD API String Manager instead (refer to the GSRoot documentation, subsection on String Manager). Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:56:40 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Archicad-C-API/Problems-with-String-functions/m-p/94628#M7367 Ralph Wessel 2007-02-14T16:56:40Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Archicad-C-API/Problems-with-String-functions/m-p/94629#M7368 Thank you! Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:55:36 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Archicad-C-API/Problems-with-String-functions/m-p/94629#M7368 Anonymous 2007-02-15T09:55:36Z