using a for loop. This lets us later print the offending string when a test fails. Fix the MSVC compilation error (XXXe183) and warnings (put suffixes as in 0L & 1.0F, signed/unsigned warnings, s/-2147483648/0x80000000L/). Uncomment the DateFromStr tests and fill in the todo fields where appropriate. Define an NB_OLE_STRINGS macro and use it to make sure all the arrays have the right number of fields. In the *FromStr loops, fill the return field with a dummy value (42) before calling the conversion function. This way a test no longer depends on whether the previous test failed or not! If a test is expected to fail, then retval is meaningless -> omit it from the result arrays. If a test actually fails or was expected to fail, then there is no point in checking retval. Improve error reporting. Pass the printf-style format directly to ok, remove the unnecessary sprintfs.