skip_string_utf8


Description:

[ CCode ( cname = "gst_byte_reader_skip_string_utf8" ) ]
public bool skip_string_utf8 ()

Skips a NUL-terminated string in the ByteReader instance, advancing the current position to the byte after the string.

This will work for any NUL-terminated string with a character width of 8 bits, so ASCII, UTF-8, ISO-8859-N etc. No input checking for valid UTF-8 is done.

This function will fail if no NUL-terminator was found in in the data.

Parameters:

this

a ByteReader instance

Returns:

true if a string could be skipped, false otherwise.