Getting Rid of the Nulls

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From: Drew (someone_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:17:07 -0500

I have been using System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString(byte[],0,72)
to converter a byte array from the registry to a string.

This works, but I end up with a bunch of null characters after
the "good" string data that I need to parse. This is evidenced
by the fact that string.length returns 36 when the actual string
data I need to work with is usually much less.

I tried using String.Trim(null) but this doesn't achieve the desired result.

The only thing I can think of is to convert the string to a char array
and loop through until I hit a null character.

Is there a better way to get rid of the nulls?

If I could just get the actual length of the string that would help.

Thanks,

Drew

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