Reading strings from binary file fails

[mromill]

Hi all,

I have a binary (database)file. The structure is simpel:
4x string with fixed length and containing general info
1x long value indicating nr of parameters
1x long value indicating nr of locations
a list with strings with the parameternames
a list with strings with the locationnames
then all data for each parameter/location/timestep

in VB6 with the Get-statement it reads a record and i don't have to specify the number of characters to be read. In VB.Net (2005beta) i tried this:

Dim BR As New IO.BinaryReader(IO.File.OpenRead(sPath & "\" & sfilename))

reading header, nr of locations, parameters and redim array's
so far, this works fine

...
For i = 0 To lNrOfParameters
asParameters(i) = BR.ReadString
Next i
...

This is where my code 'fails', the strings are not correct, ReadString seems to have a fixed length and i don't know the length of each parameter-string. How can i solve this?

Best regards,

John

 

[chiph]

My guess would be that you'll need to read it firstly as an array of bytes, and then convert each sub-part of the array into your strings, etc.

Chip H.


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