Weird problem with concatenating strings ...

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I'm stumped.

I have a piece of code that iterates through a string looking for
substrings, which I then concatenate together using code like this:

newString = newString & oldString.substring(y,1)

This all works fine, however in the end, if I view the value of
newString in my 'command window' in visual studio, I show a value like
this:

"My Value

There is no ending quotation mark.

What the heck am I missing?

If I enter the following in the command window:

newString = newString

the value will then be as expected: "My Value"

However if I put that same piece of code in my aplication, the
resulting value still ends up with no closign quote.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

-Terry
 
JustMe said:
I'm stumped.

I have a piece of code that iterates through a string looking for
substrings, which I then concatenate together using code like this:

newString = newString & oldString.substring(y,1)

This all works fine, however in the end, if I view the value of
newString in my 'command window' in visual studio, I show a value like
this:

"My Value

There is no ending quotation mark.

What the heck am I missing?

If I enter the following in the command window:

newString = newString

the value will then be as expected: "My Value"

However if I put that same piece of code in my aplication, the
resulting value still ends up with no closign quote.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Have you noticed any odd behaviour in the application itself, or only
in the debugger? I know that in VS.NET 2002 there were some problems
with string display in the debugger - I would hope that they'd all gone
by VS.NET 2003, but I would still only be really concerned if the
problem affected the app itself.
 
I ran into this quite a bit. In my case I found out that there were lots on
NULL characters dispersed in my strings that were returned from database
queries. I just tackled it head on by writing a function to strip out nulls.
 
Thanks everyone.

The problem was that the loop was going one character too far. As a
result, the last character appended to my newstring was a 'null' ...
once I fixed the loop so it only looped to the last valid character,
everythign works fine.

I still find it Weird though that the problem would occur as the code
was written.

Thanks again,
--Terry
 
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