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Ok i am writing a program, and this is only a very small part of it, but it is crucial. i am trying to upload a file to my server, and i am placing the full filepath of the server in a string, before uploading the file. here is what i have:

					Dim temp2 As String = "http://" & hsip & ":32376" & File.Replace("C:", "")
					MsgBox(temp2)

that is just the section that places the value into the string variable, then display the variable, for debugging purposes. now this doesnt place the right value in the variable, it only adds the "http://" & hsip part, then ignores the rest.

any ideas what could be wrong?

thanks for any and all help

[mark.bottomley]

check the contents of hsip for any extra characters or carriage returns/linefeeds. Also check the value of File before the replace command. Specifically, output each of the component strings with Debug.Print and/or check them in the debugger prior to the concatenation.

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mark.bottomley, on 1 Sep, 2009 - 04:36 AM, said:

check the contents of hsip for any extra characters or carriage returns/linefeeds. Also check the value of File before the replace command. Specifically, output each of the component strings with Debug.Print and/or check them in the debugger prior to the concatenation.

ok i think i found the problem, i am recieving data through a stream, then converting the bytes that i received into a string, using Encoding.ASCII.GetString(), but the byte array is size 8096, but the data in the array is only 14 bytes long, so when it gets converted into a string, a lot of values of "Nothing" get added to the end, which only appear when you then convert that string into a char array, although i have no idea how to remove those extra characters.

[mark.bottomley]

String.Trim can remove extra characters once you know what they are - or you can copy the characters over to another sting until you find a character you don't want (or up til a character you know is the last character) - Show us the code...

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mark.bottomley, on 2 Sep, 2009 - 04:38 AM, said:

String.Trim can remove extra characters once you know what they are - or you can copy the characters over to another sting until you find a character you don't want (or up til a character you know is the last character) - Show us the code...

i've just posted the relevant code here

		stream.Read(buf, 0, tcpclient.ReceiveBufferSize)
		hsip = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buf, 0, 15)
					hsip = hsip.Replace(ControlChars.Cr, "").Replace(ControlChars.Lf, "")
					Dim test1(hsip.Length) As Char
					test1 = hsip.ToCharArray

the reason i am placing the hsip into a char array, is because i was checking for those extra characters, which dont show up in the string.

any help is appreciated