From: guillaume.pierronnet@...
Date: 2003-04-11T21:51:58+09:00
Subject: 'Z' and 'A' String#unpack question

hi folks!

i wondered that 'Z' or 'A' parameters in String#unpack to return a
string with characters that follow the first null character removed .

i think this is useful for extracting C null-terminated string that has
not been filled with null characters.

$ ./ruby -ve 'p "this is my test\000please remove this".unpack("Z*")'
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-04-11) [i686-linux]
["this is my test\000please remove this"]
$

i expect to have "this is my test" instead.

thanks a lot

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