Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Reading a zero-terminated string in Lua dissector
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From: Carsten Fuchs <carsten.fuchs@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:13:12 +0200
Am 2012-06-04 22:22, schrieb Tony Trinh:

    local function getStringLength(buffer, offset)
         return buffer(offset):stringz():len()
    end


Thanks!
(Fyi, I just added a "+ 1" to also count the trailing zero, so that the offset for the next data item properly steps over it.) 


Hope that helps.


It does, very much!
Tony, thank you very much for your detailed answer!

Best regards,
Carsten




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