Is there a standard way to read and write strings from / to streams
such that the string's length prefixes the string or the string is
null-terminated? Or must this code be implemented by hand?
This is how I manually read a string from a stream. The string is
prefixed by its length:
// Get the length of the string.
byte[] data = new byte[sizeof(int)];
stream.Read(data, sizeof(int), tmpPtr);
int len = BitConverter.ToInt32(data, 0);
string myStr = "";
if (len > 0)
{
// Read in the string bytes.
data = new byte[len];
stream.Read(data, len, tmpPtr);
// Convert to a normal string.
myStr = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(data);
}
I do pretty much the opposite to write the string. I rather not do
this manually if there's already a standard way to.
Thanks for any help.
-Abe
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