"David Wang" <wgwangb@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> string convert2string(byte [] bys)
> {
> string string1 = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bys, 0,
30).TrimEnd(null);
>
> return string1;
> }
>
> byte [] allzero = new byte [40];
> string dbstr = convert2string(byte);
TYPO: I think you mean convert2string(allzero)
>
> After I get dbstr(which is empty),

> byte [] allzero = new byte [40];

David Wang <wgwangb@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Please look at following code example:
> string convert2string(byte [] bys)
> {
> string string1 = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bys, 0, 30).TrimEnd(null);
>
> return string1;
> }
>
> byte [] allzero = new byte [40];
> string dbstr = convert2string(byte);
>
> After I get dbstr(which is empty), I write it to SQL database. When I read
> this from database again, and serilize to XML message, I see
> &#0;&#0;&#0;&#0;.....&#0;&#0;&#0; which means dbstr actually was not empty,
> it filled with all "0" inside. Can anybody explain why? How can I get rid of
> it? Thank you.