How can I match a null byte (0x00) in a Visual Studio binary editor with a regular expression search?

Question

Open the file in the Visual Studio binary editor that contains the null byte (0x00), then use the quick search function (Ctrl + F) to find the null bytes.

I would think I could use a regex like \ x00 to match zero bytes, but it doesn't work. Finding any other hex value using this method works fine.

Is this a VS error, a “function”, or am I just missing something? Is there any work around?

Answer 1

You can use “00” as the text and select “Match the whole word” to find the null bytes in the binary editor. You need to select the match of the whole word so that you do not match “00” in ascii. Just tried to let me know that this works.