How to send a NULL through a Socket in Borland C++

[Kavan Rathnayake]

I have a requirement of sending a string value to a specific ipAddress but the string value should enclose with two Ascii Null Values. Eg: NULL + message + NULL I managed to send the message using sck->Socket->SendText(Edit1->Text); but I don't know how to send a NULL value through the SocketClient component. I'm fairly new to C++. If any one can help me out it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[PIEBALDconsult]

It's just character zero, does the SendText method allow that?

You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

[Kavan Rathnayake]

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

It's just character zero, does the SendText method allow that?
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions

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Send Text Method does not allow that but the same program was developed by VB6 allows to send a VBNull value using WinSock component. It's not following instructions but the certain problem does need to send a NULL value because it the receiving end is just a circuit with a network port. Do you have any idea of sending a NULL value? It does not need to be the Send Text method.. Any method that allows to send a data packet with two NULL characters enclose with will do...

[_Superman_]

The Socket object should be having another method to send raw bytes instead of text. Using that you should be able to send NULL. If not, you could try to send the \0 character - "\0MyText\0" whose length will be 8.

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[David Crow]

Send bytes, not strings.

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[jschell]

As noted in one of the replies on stackoverflow to your exact same question - you should read the documentation for the library and class that you are using.