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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 6:46 pm Post subject: writeString

Code:

local playerName = readString(addr,256,true) --isWideString
--playerName = 'abcdefg'

writeString(addr,'xyz',true)

--playerName = 'xyzdefg'
--Why not "xyz". What should I do?

ParkourPenguin
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 7:30 pm Post subject:

CE doesn't write a null terminator.

Code:

function writeStringZero(address, str, wide)
local t
if wide then
t = wideStringToByteTable(s)
t[#t+1] = 0
t[#t+1] = 0
else
t = stringToByteTable(s)
t[#t+1] = 0
end
return writeBytes(address, t)
end

-- example:
writeStringZero(addr,'xyz',true)

It would be really nice if CE accounted for embedded 0 bytes, but it doesn't.

Code:

-- CE 7.5: doesn't work: only writes 'abc'
writeString(addr, 'abc\0')

Maybe this could be called a bug since embedded 0 bytes work fine in Lua?
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Posts: 1061

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 7:58 pm Post subject:

Just an observation ...

Code:

function stringToAob(addr,byt)
local searchTable = {}
search2 = readString(addr,16,true)
print("search2: "..search2)
for i=1,byt do
searchTable[i]=string.format('%X',search2:byte(i))
end
local searchHexString = table.concat(searchTable," ")
return searchHexString
end

print(stringToAob("023AA8BA",6)) -- "abcdef" = "61 62 63 64 65 66"

writeString("023AA8BA",'xyz ')

print(stringToAob("023AAAEA",6)) --"zxy " = "78 79 7A 20 20 20"

writeString("023AA8BA",'xyz',true) --"z.x.y." = 78 00 79 00 7A 00

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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2023 10:39 pm Post subject:

yes, is working.thanks.

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