Full_Name: Bill Dunlap
Version: 2.4.0
OS: Windows XP
Submission from: (NULL) (208.252.71.182)
When I use readBin() to read an unknown number
of null-terminated strings from a file by supplying
an overcount as the n= argument, it appends an empty
string to the result.
> tf<-tempfile()
> strings<-c("One","Two","Three")
> writeBin(strings, con=tf)
> readBin(con=tf,what="character",n=100) # expect "One","Two","Three" only
[1] "One" "Two" "Three" ""
> readBin(con=tf,what="integer",size=1,signed=FALSE,n=100)
[1] 79 110 101 0 84 119 111 0 84 104 114 101 101 0
> unlink(tf)
> version
_
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch i386
os mingw32
system i386, mingw32
status
major 2
minor 4.0
year 2006
month 10
day 03
svn rev 39566
language R
version.string R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)
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