I Think you need to use

EXECUTE PROCEDURE sp_myproc(1,'my name');

Try this..

Regards
Tiago Gouvêa

----- Original Message -----
From: "darren_martz" <dmartz@...>
To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 5:39 PM
Subject: [firebird-support] message length error (encountered 0, expected 8)


> I encounter this error message every time I call a stored procedure
> with a varchar parameter.
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> Version: Firebird 1.5 embedded
> OS: Windows XP
> Interface: C/C++
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> Perhaps I have the syntax wrong, but what I'm sending is the
> following:
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> EXECUTE PROCEDURE sp_myproc 1, 'my name';
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> And what I *always* get is:
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> message length error (encountered 0, expected 8)
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> Is this a bug in my code or firebirds???
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