[resolved] Odd length in character string values

[mlhostis]

Hello everybody,

I've read in the Dicom Norm that character string values (except VR UI) should be padded with space characters when necessary to achieve even length.

But when I convert a dcm file to xml format, odd strings haven't white space at the end.

So I'd like to know if white spaces are written in the dicom file or if it is only the length field which must have an even number ?

Thanks in advance,

mlhostis

[Marco Eichelberg]

DICOM strings except UI are indeed space padded to achieve even length. DCMTK creates and removes this padding character transparently in the background (unless certain options are enabled), so the XML representation created by dcm2xml does not see this artifact, and does not have to.

[mlhostis]

I wasn't sure at all but that's what I thought.

Thanks a lot for your prompt reply.

mlhostis.