Reads a 4 byte length prefixed ansi string from the given BinaryReader - CSharp System

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Reads a 4 byte length prefixed ansi string from the given BinaryReader

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/*//from ww w.  j a  va 2s.c  o  m
   Copyright 2013 - 2016 Kees van Spelde

   Licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL) 1.02;
   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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using System.Text;
using System.IO;

public class Main{
        #endregion

        #region Read4ByteLengthPrefixedUnicodeString
        /// <summary>
        ///     Reads a 4 byte length prefixed ansi string from the given <paramref name="binaryReader" />
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="binaryReader"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        internal static string Read4ByteLengthPrefixedUnicodeString(BinaryReader binaryReader)
        {
            var length = (int)binaryReader.ReadUInt32() * 2;
            var bytes = binaryReader.ReadBytes(length);
            var str = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(bytes);
            return str.TrimEnd('\0');
        }
}

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