GlobalFindAtom info  Overview  Group

The GlobalFindAtom function searches the global atom table for the specified character string and retrieves the global atom associated with that string.

ATOM GlobalFindAtom(

Parameters

lpString

Points to the null-terminated character string to search for.

Return Values

If the function succeeds, the return value is the global atom associated with the given string.

If the function fails, the return value is zero. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.

Remarks

Even though Windows preserves the case of a string in an atom table as it was originally entered, the search performed by GlobalFindAtom is not case sensitive.

See Also

AddAtom, DeleteAtom, FindAtom, GetAtomName, GlobalAddAtom, GlobalDeleteAtom, GlobalGetAtomName 

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