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who ate my byte? [message #54975] Sun, 22 July 2007 12:02
rtowler is currently offline  rtowler
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Registered: June 2006
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IDL> print,strlen('test' + string(0B))
4
IDL> print,strlen('test' + string(1B))
5

Huh?

I need to zero terminate data packets I'm sending (sent as byte array
via UDP) but IDL silently strips them. Obviously I can do something
like:

data = [BYTE('test'), 0B]

but I am curious as to why IDL does this. Any ideas?

-Rick

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