Re^2: Null \x00 being replaced by space \x20

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Re^3: Null \x00 being replaced by space \x20 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Nov 10, 2018 at 06:56 UTC
Is there any way to send screen shots? Better just to get perl to tell you what's in the file. As Athanasius suggested, I suspect that the file really does contain a NULL, and the tool you're using to look at it converts it to a space. On Windows 7 (perl-5.28.0), I created a file (null.txt) by running: `C:\_32> perl -e "$s = 'x' . chr(0) . 'y';print $s;" >null.txt` [download] I then examined the contents of null.txt by running: `C:\_32> perl -le "open RD, '<', 'null.txt'; $x = <RD>; chomp $x; print + ord substr($x, 0, 1); print ord substr($x, 1, 1);print ord substr($x +, 2, 1); print length $x;" 120 0 121 3` [download] After using your script to create null.txt.new, I then ran the same one liner to ascertain the contents of null.new.txt `C:\_32> perl -le "open RD, '<', 'null.txt.new'; $x = <RD>; chomp $x; p +rint ord substr($x, 0, 1); print ord substr($x, 1, 1);print ord subst +r($x, 2, 1); print length $x;" 120 0 121 3` [download] So it looks to me that I also am unable to reproduce the problem. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Null \x00 being replaced by space \x20 by BaldGorilla (Initiate) on Nov 12, 2018 at 19:20 UTC
It was an issue with the text editor converting it to a space. Thank you all for the assistance!	[reply]