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Well, I have a question about saving data in Binary. Storing say a string. Say my NpcRec has AttackSay as String * 255. However the string used in Npc 1 is actually only 30 characters long. The saving stores all the white space and includes all those extra bytes . I am hoping somebody can tell me how to eliminate the white space. Hopefully a simple check can do it but I am expecting something complicated haha.

Don't you HAVE to use fixed length strings in Binary?

I don't see why it's a problem anyways.
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Store the length of the string as an integer (2 bytes) then Store Trim$(String) which removes the trailing white space.

To load, read in the length of the string, then create a string to load in Length bytes.

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Makes sense, I still don't see why it's that big of a deal though.
It can't use up very much filesize.

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