Discrepancies in reading strings (ASNOcts)

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From: "Farooq Mulla" <[email protected]>
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Hi ,
    I am relatively new to SNACC (& ASN.1 in general) ...so plzz 
bear with me.

In my application i decode & read a ASN encoded file ...which 
contains a list of records ....this record contains a field (say 
employeeNo)having fixed length = 16 of type ASNOcts.

my problem is this :
in more then half the records employeeNo is read correctly i.e the 
full length of 16 is read ...i have confirmed this with the 
octetLen being 16
wheras in other records ,employeeNo reads only a part of the 
string i.e the length comes out around 8 or 10 (i.e the octetLen 
is 8/10) & hence the string comes out as incorrect.

I have made an appln using the ASN1C compiler generated C encoders 
& decoders ...where on reading the same file I get proper desired 
results
which means that the input file is not wrong.

but i need to make this thing work with SNACC ...can ne1 give me a 
lead as to why this problem occurs or where i m going wrong ....
ne help on the same will be appreciated.....

thanx in advance & plzz bear with my questions

Farooq







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