Problem calling external function

[larry609]

I'm using 11.51 Desktop.

I copy in a function call from the PB docs and I get C0031: Syntax error. I've tried a number of API calls - no joy.

FUNCTION boolean GetComputerNameW(ref string cname,ref long nbuf) LIBRARY "Kernel32.dll"
string ls_compname
long ll_buf
ll_buf=25

Why is my PB unable to call an external function?

Thanks,
Larry

 

[mbalent]

This is the proper unicode version of this:
Declaration:
function boolean GetComputerNameW(ref string lpBuffer, ref ulong nSize) library "KERNEL32.DLL"

Calling the external function

boolean	lb_rc
ulong		lul_size = 16 // MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH + 1
string 	ls_computer_name

ls_computer_name = space(lul_size)

lb_rc = GetComputerNameW( ls_computer_name, lul_size)

if not lb_rc THEN
	return ""
else
	return ls_computer_name
end if

Matt

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