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 continue reading bytes until I see a 0. Then I convert byte array into a string and move on. All of the strings were read correctly.

How can I read this in C#? I don't think I have the luxury of simply appending bytes to an array since the arrays are fixed size.

Answer 1

Following should get you what you are looking for. All of text should be inside myText list.

var data = File.ReadAllBytes("myfile.bin");
List<string> myText = new List<string>();
int lastOffset = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < data.Length; i++)
{
    if (data[i] == 0)
    {
        myText.Add(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(data, lastOffset, i - lastOffset));
        lastOffset = i + 1;
    }
}