Re: Zero Byte Terminated Strings

From:
"PurpleServerMonkey" <PurpleServerMonkey@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
27 Mar 2007 22:56:50 -0700
Message-ID:
<1175061410.558869.127300@r56g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 28, 3:44 pm, Knute Johnson <nos...@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
wrote:

Adam Maass wrote:

"Knute Johnson" <nos...@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> wrote:

Actually very easy to do. Just create a String from your byte[]
buffer and split it on the 0s.

public class test {
    public static void main (String[] args) throws Exception {
        byte[] buf = { 0x54, 0x48, 0x49, 0x53, 0x00, 0x49, 0x53, 0x00,
         0x41, 0x00, 0x54, 0x45, 0x53, 0x54, 0x00 };

        String str = new String(buf);


Ahem, it will be critically important to specify the encoding to the
String constructor!

          String str = new String(buf, "ASCII");

        String[] arr = str.split("\u0000");

        for (int i=0; i<arr.length; i++)
            System.out.println(arr[i]);
    }
}


Only if he doesn't want his system default character set. Mine
certainly doesn't default to ASCII, or as it is more correctly known
ANSI_X3.4-1968. What character set does your C compiler default to?

--

Knute Johnson
email s/nospam/knute/


Thanks guys, that has worked a treat.

The client is an old C based application and is using ASCII encoding,
the above info has solved the problem and is working well.

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