[RESOLVED] [2005] Concating strings

[Syntastic]

I don't know why but for some reason VB refuses to concat anything at the end of a variable.

    Public Function bTag(ByVal bTaggedItem() As Byte, ByVal sTag As String) As Byte()
    Dim sTaggedItem As String = getString(bTaggedItem)
    Dim bReturn() As Byte = getBytes("<!" & sTag & ">" & sTaggedItem & "</" & sTag & ">")
    Return bReturn
    End Function

No matter what I do VB refuses to perform this part of the above function:

sTaggedItem & "</" & sTag & ">"

It shows up with the content of the string sTaggedItem with nothing at the end. I've tried everything I can think of, is there a reason this doesn't work?

[wild_bill]

Does sTaggedItem have null (hex value 00) data in it? I've had problems with that. Usually, I'll do something like

sTaggedItem.Replace(Convert.ToChar(0),"")

[Syntastic]

It is possible that it could be null but in the test runs I've performed it was a string about 20 characters in length.

[wild_bill]

I just want to clarify that I'm not refering to a null string object, but a string object with null characters in it.

[winsrp]

can you tell us what the input variables have when your program access that funtion?

[Syntastic]

Wild_bill I didn't understand you at first but now I get it, and your right. There was a null character at the end. What causes that? Is there anyway to avoid that happening?

[wild_bill]

I'm not sure what systems do that. When ever I've ran into it, it has been a file from a client.