$0 in stream and loading as text

[WojTec]

I have sample data in stream like shown on attached image. You see many $0 inside. I want to load this stream to TStrings:

Text.LoadFromStream(Data);

Yeah, loading, but only to first $0. How to load whole data of this stream as text?

I tried also use additional string stream with encoding as Ansi or Unicode on create and load to strings from this encoded stream. The same result.

[Dejan Vu]

Load as binary (TFileStream) and then cast as string. But I am afraid it won't make you happy.

[Sir Rufo]

Which first $0 are you talking about?

The stream contains data with a MultiByte-Character-Set. When talking about $0 is this the value of the char or the value of the byte (half part of a char)?

Please be more precise in your questions

[himitsu]

Zitat von Sir Rufo:

The stream contains data with a MultiByte-Character-Set.

Encoding: UCS-2 Little Endian or UTF-16

[WojTec]

Zitat von Sir Rufo:

Which first $0 are you talking about?

I'm talking about stream content (bytes). First 2 bytes are $64 (100d = Ascii(D)Ascii(d)) and $00. I'm trying load this stream as text (above code), in sample stream, after load to TStrings I have 'D''d', so looks they stop decoding text when see $0.

When I save data and load in notepad, I see characters separated with space. I want to decode whole stream as text, even if $0 bytes inside.

TStringStream.Create('', TEncoding.Unicode)
TStringStream.LoadFromStream(Source);
TStrings.LoadFromStream(TStringStream);
// result = samplestream('D''d')

[Sir Rufo]

Zitat von WojTec:

Zitat von Sir Rufo:

Which first $0 are you talking about?

I'm talking about stream content (bytes). First 2 bytes are $64 (100d = Ascii(D)) and $00. I'm trying load this stream as text (above code), in sample stream, after load to TStrings I have 'D', so looks they stop decoding text when see $0.

When I save data and load in notepad, I see characters separated with space. I want to decode whole stream as text, even if $0 bytes inside.

TStringStream.Create('', TEncoding.Unicode)
TStringStream.LoadFromStream(Source);
TStrings.LoadFromStream(TStringStream);
// result = samplestream('D')

Oh, you are in a bigger trouble than I thought. You should have seen d and not D.
So maybe yor compiler or compter is broken ... sorry to tell that

[WojTec]

Zitat von Sir Rufo:

Oh, you are in a bigger trouble than I thought. You should have seen d and not D.
So maybe yor compiler or compter is broken ... sorry to tell that

Probably I see d, not D
Anyway don't working annd changing encoding don't want to help

[Sir Rufo]

Zitat von WojTec:

Zitat von Sir Rufo:

Oh, you are in a bigger trouble than I thought. You should have seen d and not D.
So maybe yor compiler or compter is broken ... sorry to tell that

Probably I see d, not D
Anyway don't working annd changing encoding don't want to help

Maybe you get now the point about "be more precise"
It is near to impossible to help if you tell us about something like.

The source did not contain a whole text but a bunch of strings in a kind of structure. You have to work on that structure and read the data following the structure rules.

A good starting point is to look at the producer of the data and get some information. We do not have (because you did not tell us - another precise mark) any clue about the producer.

[brechi]

You have to write your own component to visualize the text.
Internal PAnsiChar/PWideChar is used and a #0 is the end of the text.

So if you use

Code:

  Memo1.Lines.Text := 'test1'#0'test2'#0;

only the "test1" will be shown.

If you dont want to save your data, then you can load the file into a TMemoryStream (or a string) and replace the #0 with another character.

Code:

var
  s: String;
  fm: TFileStream;
fm := TFileStream.Create;
fm.LoadFromFile('sadasd', fmOpenRead);
setLength(s, fm,size);
fm.Read(s[1], Length(s));
s := StringReplacte(s, #0, #1, [rfReplaceAll]);
memo1.lines.text := s;
etc.

[jaenicke]

Zitat von brechi:

If you dont want to save your data, then you can load the file into a TMemoryStream (or a string) and replace the #0 with another character.

This is only unicode text, so the problem is not to replace those bytes, but to read the file with correct encoding.
If one did it this way and there is only one real unicode character inside, one would get really strange results...

Even if there is no byte order mark this code works perfectly for me:

Delphi-Quellcode:

var
  test: TStringStream;
begin
  test := TStringStream.Create('', TEncoding.Unicode);
  try
    test.LoadFromFile('c:\temp\a.txt');
    ShowMessage(test.DataString);
  finally
    test.Free;
  end;
end;

So it would be better, if you would attach a working sample code with an example file...