String created from buffer has wrong length and strip() result is incorrect

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:08:04 +0000
Lucas Burson via Digitalmars-d-learn
<digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com> wrote:

> The buffer is populated from a scsi ioctl so it "should" be only 
> ascii and null-terminated but it's a good idea to harden the code 
> a bit.
> Thank you for your help!
i developed a habit of making such buffers one byte bigger than
necessary and just setting the last byte to 0 before converting. this
way it's guaranteed to be 0-terminated.
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