I need to read a null terminated ASCII string from a FileStream. How can I
do that? I know that with FileStream.Read Byte, I can read until I get a
byte == 0 but how can I convert a single byte to a character? Is there a
way to do this easier? 3 8583
Michel,
I would take the FileStream and pass it to a StreamReader, along with
the return value from the static property ASCII on the Encoding class (found
in System.Text). Once you have that, you can just call ReadLine on the
stream reader, and it will allow you to read the contents line by line.
Hope this helps.
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news:el******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl... I need to read a null terminated ASCII string from a FileStream. How can I do that? I know that with FileStream.Read Byte, I can read until I get a byte == 0 but how can I convert a single byte to a character? Is there a way to do this easier?
Kind of, thank you for the Info... But the file is binary (but includes null
terminated strings at certain offsets).
So far, I use the BinaryReader class to find the offsets of the strings, I
wanted to know if I could also use BinaryReader to read the strings
themselves.
Any idea?
"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om> wrote in
message news:Oj******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl... Michel,
I would take the FileStream and pass it to a StreamReader, along with the return value from the static property ASCII on the Encoding class
(found in System.Text). Once you have that, you can just call ReadLine on the stream reader, and it will allow you to read the contents line by line.
Hope this helps.
-- - Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] - mv*@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m
"Michel Racicot" <mi************ *********@cgi.c om> wrote in message news:el******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl...I need to read a null terminated ASCII string from a FileStream. How can
I do that? I know that with FileStream.Read Byte, I can read until I get a byte == 0 but how can I convert a single byte to a character? Is there
a way to do this easier?
"Michel Racicot" wrote: Kind of, thank you for the Info... But the file is binary (but includes null terminated strings at certain offsets).
So far, I use the BinaryReader class to find the offsets of the strings, I wanted to know if I could also use BinaryReader to read the strings themselves.
you use the BinaryReader to read in a byte[], then pass that to the
appropriate System.Text.Enc oding class to convert to a string. Any idea?
"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om> wrote in message news:Oj******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl... Michel,
I would take the FileStream and pass it to a StreamReader, along with the return value from the static property ASCII on the Encoding class (found in System.Text). Once you have that, you can just call ReadLine on the stream reader, and it will allow you to read the contents line by line.
Hope this helps.
-- - Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] - mv*@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m
"Michel Racicot" <mi************ *********@cgi.c om> wrote in message news:el******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl...I need to read a null terminated ASCII string from a FileStream. How can I do that? I know that with FileStream.Read Byte, I can read until I get a byte == 0 but how can I convert a single byte to a character? Is there a way to do this easier?
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