Thread: c_str() truncating string (randomly?)

Originally Posted by tabstop

If it was a space, you wouldn't have a problem. I'm guessing you have an actual \0 character, which is not at all like a space, really.

Are you still doing those debug print statements I see posted here? Is o short, or just o.c_str? If your strings are always supposed to be the same length, you could do

Code:

for (int k = 0; k < string_length; k++) {
    cout << static_cast<int> o[k] << " ";
}

to see the actual values of the characters.

Yep I am, that was where I got these from:

Normal String: ",1 2 3m4 5 6 7 8 q X - = [ ].C ' # f . /"
Converted: ",1 2 3m4 5 6 7 8 q X -"

Thanks for the help, I will try what you suggest and see what I get

Thanks so much you were right, turns out the range of random numbers I was generating was one larger than my character dictionary, so every now and then it would reach outside it and get that \0 value

Thanks again for all your help!