CString Null characters ?

Hello .
I have following code that works perfect for my project.
The string s2 contains hexadecimal values that need to be splitted up in bytes (Uint8) into an array lVal()
X is the CString containing the created array.

[code]Dim i As Integer
Dim k As Integer
Dim s2 As String
Dim s3 As String
Dim n As Uint8
Dim lVal(5) As Uint8
Dim X As CString
s2 = “F0 43 73 26 00 F7”

 ' Remove all spaces in string

s3 = RepalceAll(s2, " ", “”)
s2 = s3

 ' convert string to Uint8 (bytes)

i=0
for k = 1 to len(s2) step 2
s3 = midB(s2, k, 2)
n = val("&h" + s3)
lVal(i) = n
if n = 247 Then Exit ’ 247 = &HF7
i = i + 1
Next

X = ChrB(lVall(0)) + ChrB(lVal(1)) + ChrB(lVal(2)) + ChrB(lVal(3)) + ChrB(lVal(4)) + ChrB(lVal(5))

 ' send X to a dll that accepts CString 

rtn = HpInsertSysex(Hpid, lTime, X)

[/code]

As mentioned this works perfect, even with the 00 included into the string s2.

In my project the length of s2 can be up to 383 characters (127 bytes + spaces).
So it would be a long X = ChrB(lVal(0)) + ChrB(lVal(1)) + … + ChrB(lVal127)).

So I tried the following in my code
Replace X = ChrB(lVall(0)) + ChrB(lVal(1)) + ChrB(lVal(2)) + ChrB(lVal(3)) + ChrB(lVal(4)) + ChrB(lVal(5)) by

for i = 0 to 5
X = X + ChrB(lVal(i))
Next 

This does work if there are no ‘00’ in the string s2.
If a ‘00’ exists in the string the CString does not includes this ‘00’.

I know a CString is Null terminated and this seems normal because ChrB(&H00) = a Null,
but why does it works even with 00 if i define X as ChrB() + Chrb() + … and not if I create it with a for next code ?

Can anyone explain why and is there a solution ?

Thanks

Regards
Etienne

What does your lVal method do?

lVal() is an Array
He is declared in the 5th line of my code

Dim lVal() As Uint8

Don’t define X as CString. Dim X as String. Then it will work. The reason your first set of code works is because Xojo builds the right hand side in a temporary String variable and then assigns it to X. Your second set of code uses X as a CString, so it discards the 00 value, as it should.

CString is not suitable for use in Xojo code directly. It exists for use in declares.