NUL is the abbreviation for the null character in several character sets
NUL has a value of 0 and is often written as the escape sequence \0. It is used as a terminator in c standard strings.
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Android studio showing random code instead original file for flutter project. same file views perfectly in vs-code or notepad
Here are the screenshots from different IDEs.
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How to allow bash to performantly read data which includes NUL bytes?
More exactly, the question is:
Which recipes are there to enable bash scripts to properly and safely process N bytes which might contain NUL?
This question led to following observation:
bash -c 'LC_ALL=C read -rN 1
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Force Git to read ANSI files containing NUL
There are many, many places describing how to "force" Git to read a file as text. Generally, the solution involves adding a filter to .gitattributes to apply the text attribute to the file(s). Examples include:
* text
* text=auto
* text diff merge
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LINQ Count null values
I'm doing a simple Pie chart that counts current employee, I'm still new to LINQ so I just want to ask is there a way to total count null values?
Here's my code so far:
public ActionResult PieCount()
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int undefined = db.EMPs.Where(x =>…
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allow user to complete parallel / xargs command (function) after selecting files into array; quoting nuls correctly in printf script
This is a follow-on question to this question
In that question, I could get selected files into an array and pass them to a command / function (already exported). This question differs in that I would like the user to complete the command after…
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NUL termination - is it always required?
I was taught to always nul terminate char arrays. I understand the implications of using string library functions without nul termination.
Is the following piece of code considered bad practice?
unsigned char foo[2] = { 0xFF, 0xFE }; // not null…
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How to force git to treat text file that contains NUL as text?
I'm using text files as a kind of very simple database, that just contain NUL-separated strings. I want to manage these files by git, as text.
Here is a sample file (^@ means NUL):
Tlrl-ng tl tlu
^@aget does not wait for all forked processed.…
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Laravel call to member function on null
I have spent the last hour googling and reading stack posts on this problem, but have been unable to resolve this issue. I attached a try catch and an if statement and I still am getting the call to member function on null error. Here is my code
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readr::read_file escape nul character
I have a badly structured text file which I want to transform into a tidy data frame. As a first step, I need to read the whole file, which I want to do using readr::read_file("my_file.txt"). Unfortunately, read_file() stops reading the file after a…
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Read txt files containing nul character as seprator, such as \001?
when I use r to read the txt files,I set the read.table sep para as sep="\001" or sep="\\001" both not worked.
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How do I remove NUL characters from a CSV using Python
I've noticed that several CSVs that come my way have random 'NUL' values placed through out the file. I noticed this because when I import the file into a database using a SSIS package I built those files throw a no column delimiter found error. I'm…
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How does nul work when a file called nul exists
If nul can never be a file in Windows, what if it a file called "nul" was created in all the directorys using a OS that doesn't have the same rules for nul. Would data be written to nul if for example 'echo 1234>nul' was performed in CMD or would it…
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C++: How to encode a std::string into base64 without losing NUL character
I am working on getting someone else's code up and running. The code is written in C++. The part that is failing is when it converts a std::string to base64:
std::string tmp =…
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split a char array into tokens where the separator is NUL char
I want to split a char array into tokens using the NUL char as the separator.
I have a char array that I've received over the network from a recv command, so I know the length of the char array. In that char array there are bunch of strings that…
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Android Studio Crashes when trying to retrieve file via local history
My pc crashed. A java file became corrupted, and that file just displays 'nul' 'nul' etc. in notepad++. When I try and click on the file to open it, Android Studio crashes, and if I right click on that file and try and restore it by clicking on…
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