String length when converting from a character array

Question

I\'m having serious problems with string-handling. As my problems are rather hard to describe, I will start with some demo code reproducing them:

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Answer 1

If you want to create strings from a byte array, i.e. ID3v2.4.0 with ISO-8859 encoding, then this should work:

    Dim s1 As String = "Test"
    Dim b() As Byte = New Byte() {84, 101, 115, 116, 0, 0, 0}
    Dim s2 As String = System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(b).Trim(ControlChars.NullChar)

    If s1 = s2 Then Stop

According to this http://id3.org/id3v2.4.0-structure other encodings may be present and the code would need to be adjusted if one of the others is used.