nd may contain an additional trailing space or NUL.</p>

 <p>The input buffer is allowed to contain all NULs,
 in which case the method returns 0L
 (this allows for missing fields).</p>

 <p>To work-around some tar implementations that insert a
 leading NUL this method returns 0 if it detects a leading NUL
 since Ant 1.9.</p></div>
<dl>
<dt><span class="paramLabel">Parameters:</span></dt>
<dd><code>buffer</code> - The buffer from which to parse.</dd>
<dd><code>offset</code> - The offset into the buffer from