Right, I did go and read up on GetString and you are of course correct.
On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 10:51, Jonathan Pryor wrote:
> Below...
>
> On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 13:06, George Farris wrote:
> <snip/>
> > > Shouldn't it be:
> > >
> > > s = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes, 0, len);
> > > buf.Append(s);
> > >
> >
> > Well the docs on GetString say it can be just a byte[].
>
> Yes, GetString(byte[]) exists, but it's equivalent to this:
>
> string GetString (byte[] bytes)
> {
> return GetString (bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
> }
>
> So this is only valid if `bytes' is full. Otherwise (when you've read
> fewer than `bytes.Length' bytes) the end of your string will contain
> garbage data. The `GetString (bytes, 0, len)' fixes this, so GetString
> will only convert valid data.
>
> - Jon
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