[ENet-discuss] ENetPacket to std::string

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On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Nuno Silva <little.coding.fox at gmail.com>wrote:

> First of all, be sure that the content you're getting is indeed a string.
> Binary data does not go well with strings, because e.g., std::string may
> find a '\0' before it reaches the end of the packet data which signifies an
> end of string in C-Style strings, and thus not have all the data.
>
> You could typecast that packet->data as (const char *)packet->data, however
> it probably does not have an ending '\0', so you should first copy it to a
> buffer and append a '\0' to that buffer. Something like this:
>
> std::vector<char> myString(packet->dataLength + 1);
> myString[packet->dataLength] = '\0';
> memcpy(&myString[0], packet->data, packet->dataLength);
>
> std::string my_string(&myString[0]);
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:26 PM, ingmar wirths <ingmania at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> i'm getting a little frustrated trying to put the content of a packet
>> into a string.
>> What i simply want to do is something like:
>>
>> std::string my_string (packet->data, packet->dataLength);
>>
>> This doesn't compile however. I kind of get the idea why not, fiddled
>> around a little,
>> but could'nt get it working.
>>
>> I guess someone did this before, any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ingmar
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