Stream Reader

[Ian Oldbury]

I'm having a problem reading from a flat file, in the file single character
"£" and "»" exist
however when i view the contents of the file line by line these characters
don't exist.

Has anyone got any suggestions????

Here is the code...

Dim LineContents as string
Dim fs As FileStream
Dim sr As StreamReader

fs = New FileStream("c:\product.txt", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read,
FileShare.Read)
sr = New StreamReader(fs)

While sr.Peek > -1
LineContents = Convert.ToString(sr.ReadLine)
End While

[David Browne]

"Ian Oldbury" <ian_oldbury@_NO_msn_SPAM_.com> wrote in message
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I'm having a problem reading from a flat file, in the file single
character "£" and "»" exist
however when i view the contents of the file line by line these characters
don't exist.

Has anyone got any suggestions????

Here is the code...

Dim LineContents as string
Dim fs As FileStream
Dim sr As StreamReader

fs = New FileStream("c:\product.txt", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read,
FileShare.Read)
sr = New StreamReader(fs)

Specify the encoding:

StreamReader Constructor (Stream, Encoding)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ClassTopic.asp

David

[Ian Oldbury]

cheers

"David Browne" <davidbaxterbrowne no potted me**@hotmail.com> wrote in
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"Ian Oldbury" <ian_oldbury@_NO_msn_SPAM_.com> wrote in message
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I'm having a problem reading from a flat file, in the file single
character "£" and "»" exist
however when i view the contents of the file line by line these
characters don't exist.

Has anyone got any suggestions????

Here is the code...

Dim LineContents as string
Dim fs As FileStream
Dim sr As StreamReader

fs = New FileStream("c:\product.txt", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read,
FileShare.Read)
sr = New StreamReader(fs)

Specify the encoding:

StreamReader Constructor (Stream, Encoding)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ClassTopic.asp

David