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Re: Something rather odd: results change by adding blank lines to the code

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Mayayana,

> Microsoft, in their wisdom, were trying to protect us from
> binary files. ReadAll stops at the first null.

To bad that they forgot to either zero out the rest of the string, or shrink 
it to fit the actual read data ...

... apart from not mentioning that stop-at-first-zero in their documentation 
ofcourse. :-(

>    Use Read(x) instead of ReadAll.

Didn't think of doing it that way.  Instead I just read the file 
byte-by-byte, doing the checking along the way (as well as gathering the 
ASCII contents).

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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Something rather odd: results change by adding blank lines to the code "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-02-28 12:15 +0100
  Re: Something rather odd: results change by adding blank lines to the code Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2018-02-28 08:05 -0500
    Re: Something rather odd: results change by adding blank lines to the code "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-02-28 15:14 +0100
  Re: Something rather odd: results change by adding blank lines to the code JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2018-02-28 20:25 +0700
    Re: Something rather odd: results change by adding blank lines to the code Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2018-02-28 08:38 -0500
    Re: Something rather odd: results change by adding blank lines to the code "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-02-28 14:55 +0100
  Re: Something rather odd: results change by adding blank lines to the code "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2018-02-28 10:01 -0500
    Re: Something rather odd: results change by adding blank lines to the code "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2018-02-28 17:16 +0100

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