From d684b3ae1150ff204f2052b994d9b1426e85b4b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Zinnschlag <marc@zpages.de>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:35:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fixed getString function in NIF loader

---
 components/nif/nif_file.hpp | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/components/nif/nif_file.hpp b/components/nif/nif_file.hpp
index a4eaa8990..23bccb0fe 100644
--- a/components/nif/nif_file.hpp
+++ b/components/nif/nif_file.hpp
@@ -193,11 +193,12 @@ public:
 
     std::string getString(size_t length)
     {
-        std::string str;
-        str.resize(length);
+        std::vector<char> str (length+1, 0);
+
         if(inp->read(&str[0], length) != length)
-            return std::string();
-        return str.substr(0, str.find('\0'));
+            throw std::runtime_error ("string length in NIF file does not match");
+
+        return &str[0];
     }
     std::string getString()
     {