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Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk

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"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> wrote

| Than explain to me why it can stop exactly at the end of /any/ contents, 
no
| matter how short or long, but is too stupid to detect a string-length of
| zero.   That simply does not make any sense.
|

  Actually, as we've found before, it doesn't seem to
do that. It assumes content without checking the file
size. Then it reads until it hits a null. I assume it's
using API like CreateFile/ReadFile (or maybe VC++
functions) to get the file into a string. Then it sees
the end of the string as the first null, unless given
a specific string length to return.

  I think all you can do is say, "Thanks, Scripting Guys!"

  As I understand it, they're the bright bulbs who were
tasked with creating scrrun *and wrote it in VC6++!*.
So it's a Windows system library but it has to load the
VC6++ runtime.

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file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-20 12:54 +0100
  Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-20 08:39 -0500
  Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-11-22 00:00 +0700
    Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-21 12:50 -0500
    Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-21 20:39 +0100
      Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-21 15:04 -0500
        Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-21 21:46 +0100
          Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-21 16:31 -0500
            Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-22 09:23 +0100
              Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-22 09:14 -0500
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-22 15:58 +0100
          Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-11-22 19:13 +0700
            Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-22 15:47 +0100
              Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-22 10:10 -0500
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-22 18:37 +0100
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-22 18:40 -0500
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-23 09:19 +0100
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-23 10:09 -0500
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-23 17:36 +0100
      Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-11-22 19:10 +0700

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