Removing trailing nulls from byte array in C#

Question

Ok, I am reading in dat files into a byte array. For some reason, the people who generate these files put about a half meg\'s worth of useless null bytes at the end of the

Answer 1

Assuming 0=null, that is probably your best bet... as a minor tweak, you might want to use Buffer.BlockCopy when you finally copy the useful data..

Answer 2

test this :

    private byte[] trimByte(byte[] input)
    {
        if (input.Length > 1)
        {
            int byteCounter = input.Length - 1;
            while (input[byteCounter] == 0x00)
            {
                byteCounter--;
            }
            byte[] rv = new byte[(byteCounter + 1)];
            for (int byteCounter1 = 0; byteCounter1 < (byteCounter + 1); byteCounter1++)
            {
                rv[byteCounter1] = input[byteCounter1];
            }
            return rv;
        }

Answer 3

How about this:

[Test]
public void Test()
{
   var chars = new [] {'a', 'b', '\0', 'c', '\0', '\0'};

   File.WriteAllBytes("test.dat", Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(chars));

   var content = File.ReadAllText("test.dat");

   Assert.AreEqual(6, content.Length); // includes the null bytes at the end

   content = content.Trim('\0');

   Assert.AreEqual(4, content.Length); // no more null bytes at the end
                                       // but still has the one in the middle
}

Answer 4

In my case LINQ approach never finished ^))) It's to slow to work with byte arrays!

Guys, why won't you use Array.Copy() method?

    /// <summary>
    /// Gets array of bytes from memory stream.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="stream">Memory stream.</param>
    public static byte[] GetAllBytes(this MemoryStream stream)
    {
        byte[] result = new byte[stream.Length];
        Array.Copy(stream.GetBuffer(), result, stream.Length);

        return result;
    }