Parsing null terminated strings in a binary.

Eric Merritt cyberlync@REDACTED
Thu Jan 13 08:03:09 CET 2005


Guys,

 I have a need to parse out a series of null terminated fields a
binary. The easiest way to do this is to simply traverse the binary
using bit syntax until a null byte occurs. However, I believe this
would be less then efficient as a new binary would be created for each
byte matched. Aside from created a C port to actually do the parsing
do any of you have any ideas on how to do this efficiently?

Thanks,
Eric
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