[Gambas-user] Cannot Split() against ASCII NUL byte

[Jim Provan]

On 08/05/2013 09:53 AM, Tobias Boege wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the Split() function seems to have problems splitting against the ASCII NUL
> (aka "\0") byte. In the attached project, there are four test cases from
> whose results I assume that Split() stops working on the separator when it
> encounters a NUL just if it was a C string. Look especially at the last
> test.
>
> I currently work around this issue by using the "tr" program.
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>
>
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This will always occur in any language, as a string is terminated by the 
null character internally.