Re: Calculate length of byte string with embedded nulls

Angus wrote:

Hello

I have a stream of bytes - unsigned char*.

If it's a text stream,
then I suspect that you may be wanting to calculate
the length of the "line" rather than the length of a string.
Lines of text are terminated by a newline character ('\n').
The way to find the length of the line is to do it
while the line is being read.

But the 'string' may contain embedded nulls.
So not like a traditional c string terminated with a null.

I need to calculate the length of these arrays
but can't use strlen because
it just stops counting at the first null it finds. so how to do it?


--
pete
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