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Null Terminated strings

How do you create them?

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Ithaqua
Nov 21 '05 #1
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Ithaqua,
What do you want to do with them?

Strings in .NET are not null terminated, allowing the null character to be a
valid character in a string.

To put a null character in a string, you can simply append/concatenate it to
the string.

Const StringWithEmbed dedNull As String _
= "A string with an embedded " _
& ControlChars.Nu llChar _
& " null char"

If you need to pass a string to a Win32 or COM API a null character is
normally appended for you by the marshaller, so you do not need to worry
about it. In fact having a string with a null character in it can confuse
the marshaller, as it stops copying strings at the null character...

Hope this helps
Jay
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How do you create them?

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Nov 21 '05 #2
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How do you create them?

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