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Adding a String to a textbox - I only get the first char

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StevoSimpson

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Apr 23, 2006
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Hi,

I'm having trouble getting a textbox to show strings properly.

I'm reading in a file into a String*, searching for a specific string within this, and saving the found string.

ie.
Code:
FileStream* fstrm = new FileStream(String::Concat(this->drive,this->DATpath),FileMode::Open,FileAccess::Read,FileShare::Read);
StreamReader* reader = new StreamReader(fstrm,System::Text::Encoding::UTF8);

String* info = reader->ReadToEnd();
String* line1 = info->Substring(7,64);

This works fine, I get the results I'm expecting when I output line1 into a file. (the full track name)
However, when I try adding line1 to a textbox:
Code:
textBox1->Text = line1;
all I get is the first character.

Any ideas why this would be happening? It's beginning to drive me insane!!
 
Doesn't look like C++, but could the String be one of those formats where every other character is a null. You'd have to translate it to a string type the text box understands.

I'm pretty rusty on those macros USES_CONVERSION, W2T, T2W etc

Just a shot in he dark

Jeb \0
 
Thanks for that info. You were right in thinking that the original String* did have null characters every other character. I thought I had managed to get rid of them like this:

Code:
info = info->Replace("\\0", "");

Although I'm not entirely sure if it has worked properly. If I write it straight to a file it works. If I store it in a 'track' object, then output into a file from there, the spaces have reappeared again! I'm guessing that it hasn't worked correctly, but its very strange.

Do those macros work in .NET?
 
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