Hi Stoyan, It's from a socket, so I don't know the size until i get the terminating characters.
Cheers! Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stoyan Damov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:43 PM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] trim byte array > Hi Dave, > > Are you reading your data from a fixed storage (e.g. a file, and not > from a socket) and do you know how much bytes you'd need upfront? If > you do then you can preallocate the buffer w/ the exact size you need, > but I guess you don't know the size upfront. If you don't, then I'd > suggest what a lot of people mentioned already suggested - > MemoryStream, and will just add a StreamWriter on top of it. > > If you want to avoid the inevitable resizing which will happen in the > MemoryStream instance, and you don't mind working on scattered data, > just read your data in multiple arrays and just keep track of the real > size of the last array. That's what I'd do if I had to read hundreds > of megabytes of data and don't know the exact size upfront. > > Cheers, > Stoyan > > On 7/6/06, dave wanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi all, > > does anyone know of an efficient way to trim a byte array? > > > > Here is what is happening. I'm reading in some binary data into a > > dynamically expanding byte array, until all of the data has been read into > > memory. I need to trim the byte array to remove the trailing nulls. Because > > the amount of data is large (100megs+), I don't want to simply create a 2nd > > 100meg+ byte array in memory, and then copy it. So, is there anyway to trim > > the existing byte array, and then return it? > > > > Thanks, > > Dave > > > > =================================== > > This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com > > > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com > > > > =================================== > This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com > =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
