Read String VB.net

[Matsy]

Hey,
When I was messing around with VB.net with a BinaryReader to read a string, I only saw an option to read a 7 character string, and no others.
Would there be an option to just read a null terminated string?, Because I can't seem to find it.

Cheers,
Matsy

[Silver]

I think the VB.net Binary String Reader reads 1 byte before the string and uses that for the string length.

I don't think I have even looked I've always just used something like this

dim test as string
dim byter as byte = 1
....
While byter <> 0
byter = bread.ReadByte
test+= Chr(byter)
End While

I'd hope there was something built in, but laziness had always resorted in me using that above.

[Matsy]

Works perfect, Thanks

[Rahly]

also very slow too

i don't use vb.net but c# equiv is


with a FileStream or BinaryReader, i use filestreams

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byte[] bytestring = new byte[size];
fs.read(bytestring);
System.Text.ASCIIEncoding encoding = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();
string mystring = encoding.GetString(bytestring);

This works out better because its easier to change encodings. For say UTF8 or UTF16LE/BE.

VB.NET example

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Dim dBytes As Byte() = ...
Dim str As String
Dim enc As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding()
str = enc.GetString(dBytes)