System.Data.SQLite

.NET Standard 2.1 introduced the method Marshal.PtrToStringUTF8, which can be used in SQLiteConvert.UTF8ToString (similar to using Marshal.PtrToStringUni in SQLite3_UTF16.UTF16ToString), in order to save allocation of a byte array and to avoid Marshal.ReadByte() when using the standard SQLite library.

For example:

    public static string UTF8ToString(IntPtr nativestring, int nativestringlen)
    {
      if (nativestring == IntPtr.Zero || nativestringlen == 0) return String.Empty;

#if NETSTANDARD && !NETSTANDARD2_0
      if (nativestringlen < 0)
        return Marshal.PtrToStringUTF8(nativestring);
      else
        return Marshal.PtrToStringUTF8(nativestring, nativestringlen);
#else
      if (nativestringlen < 0)
      {
        nativestringlen = 0;

        while (Marshal.ReadByte(nativestring, nativestringlen) != 0)
          nativestringlen++;

        if (nativestringlen == 0) return String.Empty;
      }

      byte[] byteArray = new byte[nativestringlen];

      Marshal.Copy(nativestring, byteArray, 0, nativestringlen);

      return _utf8.GetString(byteArray, 0, nativestringlen);
#endif
        }

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