StreamReader and Peek()

[Dan]

Hi, I'm having a problem with StreamReader.Pe ek(). Let's say I open a file
and read it to end; then I'd want to move its stream pointer back to the
file beginning: I can call BaseStream Seek method or change the value of the
Position property, but this does not seem to affect the Peek() method, which
keeps returning -1 as if it had not been notified that the stream pointer
has been repositioned to file beginning. How can I let Peek() work as
expected (i.e. return a value >=0 once the stream has been repositioned)?

Here's a sample code to reproduce my issue. Thx to all!

StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("c :\\work\\somefi le.txt"))
Debug.Assert(sr .Peek()>-1); // OK
sr.ReadToEnd();
Debug.Assert(sr .Peek()==-1); // OK
sr.BaseStream.S eek(0L, SeekOrigin.Begi n); // or
sr.BaseStream.P osition = 0L;
Debug.Assert(sr .Peek()>-1); // ASSERTION FAILS!!!

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Dan <df***@hotmail. com> wrote:

Hi, I'm having a problem with StreamReader.Pe ek(). Let's say I open a file
and read it to end; then I'd want to move its stream pointer back to the
file beginning: I can call BaseStream Seek method or change the value of the
Position property, but this does not seem to affect the Peek() method, which
keeps returning -1 as if it had not been notified that the stream pointer
has been repositioned to file beginning. How can I let Peek() work as
expected (i.e. return a value >=0 once the stream has been repositioned)?

Use StreamReader.Di scardBufferedDa ta. Basically, StreamReader often
reads more than you ask it to, keeping the read data in a buffer to
make things more efficient. DiscardBuffered Data tells it that things
have changed, and it should ignore whatever it had already read.

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