Getting a null terminated string from a ByteBuffer/CharBuffer

[Larry Cha Cha]

How would I go about getting a string from a ByteBuffer or CharBuffer with the same contents, that is null terminated without checking every single character?
Cheers.

[Jim Yingst]

Well, there's

String allChars = charBuffer.toString();
int nullPos = allChars .indexOf(0);
String str = (nullPos < 0) ? allChars : allChars .substring(0, nullPos);

Here indexOf() is checking every character for you. I don't know of another shortcut - you have to check every character. Unlike C, Java does not normally use nulls to signal the end of a String, and so the libraries don't bother to support it. But it's pretty easy to do yourself.

[Bear Bibeault]

Why do you feel that you need a null-terminated string?
bear

[Larry Cha Cha]

Thanks Jim I was hopeing there was some util method that would do it but your snippet should do me fine.
Bear: It's from an existing file that stores their strings as null terminated, I wouldn't have done it myself that way.