Hi,

My C# application is getting data stream from remote server. After getting receiving the data from socket, i am converting it to "String" thru the ASCII encoder(Encoder.GetString()).

In the streamed data, there are some "null" characters which is indicated as '\0'. I do not know how these chars are coming with the stream. But, the streamed data is perfectly correct data and i have checked that. I am supposed to skip those null characters and read the subsequent characters.

The problem i am facing now is that the embedded '\0' characters are getting mixed with the "Date" fields and thus invalidating the "Date". How to resolve this? i.e. How to skip/ignore the embedded '\0' chars in the stream. Am i making any mistake with encoders... ASCII... UTF...or something else?

Hope you guys can help me resolve this.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Peri

Since you are using string, did you check account for unicode characters?
If your string is "ABC", when converted into bytearray it's 0, 65, 0, 66, 0, 67. Remember unicode is 2-byte each.
Note: I arbitrarily used a machine encoding of MSB-LSB. I do not remember how windows encodes them, so the string may be 65, 0, 66, 0, 67, 0. You should determine this yourself.

Also you may find it easier to change datetime variable directly into 8 byte byte-arrary and by-pass the whole unicode/string conversion process if both your server and client are written with .NET

Thanks, tnd.

The stream is ASCII and not Unicode. Got to know from another source that since network streams don't end and they are continuous, embedded nulls are normal. I do not understand the full meaning of this... but it seems presence of nulls in streams is normal.

I am currently stripping off those nulls after validating the stream for checksum.

Thanks and regards,
Peri