Removing "NUL" characters

null char notepad++
user2618929 picture user2618929 · Oct 12, 2013 · Viewed 181.1k times · Source

I have got characters like that in my notepad++

npp screenshot of NULs

When i am trying to copy whole line, i am actually copying everything until "NUL":

File:1

What i want to do, is replace those null, to be nothing, so i can copy my whole line. Maybe there is any keyword that will tell notepad++(or any other program that might help) to replace those characters? When i am selecting it, use Right Click and then "clear", its gone - but i dont want to do it one by one.

I don't care about removing the cause of this problem, just the effect(NULs)

Answer

Aleksandr Shumilov picture Aleksandr Shumilov · Oct 12, 2013

This might help, I used to fi my files like this: http://security102.blogspot.ru/2010/04/findreplace-of-nul-objects-in-notepad.html

Basically you need to replace \x00 characters with regular expressions

Related questions

Best way to check if a character array is empty

Which is the most reliable way to check if a character array is empty? char text[50]; if(strlen(text) == 0) {} or if(text[0] == '\0') {} or do i need to do memset(text, 0, sizeof(text)); if(strlen(text) == 0) {} Whats the most …

Read More
Understanding the difference between null and '\u000' in Java

I read in a book (Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel, 4th edition, page 47) that null is equal to '\u000'. And then I was wondering what exactly does '\u000' really mean. As per my understanding null …

Read More
Adding char with null terminator to string in C

What happens when in C I do something like: char buf[50]=""; c = fgetc(file); buf[strlen(buf)] = c+'\0'; buf[0] = '\0'; I'm using some this code in a loop and am finding old values in buf I just …

Read More