Reading a null-terminated string

Question

I am reading strings from a binary file. Each string is null-terminated. Encoding is UTF-8. In python I simply read a byte, check if it\'s 0, append it to a byte array, and

Answer 1

I assume you're using a StreamReader instance:

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
using(StreamReader rdr = OpenReader(...)) {
    Int32 nc;
    while((nc = rdr.Read()) != -1) {
          Char c = (Char)nc;
          if( c != '\0' ) sb.Append( c );
    }
}