Loading String into FileStream

[Chris Fink]

How do I load a string into a FileStream without going to disk?

For example,

string abc = "This is a string";

How do I load abc into a FileStream?

FileStream input = new FileStream(.... .);

Reason why I am doing this is that a method that I am calling expects a
FileStream but I would prefer to pass it a Filestream generated from a string
instead of a file since it would be extra overhead to create a file from the
string......

[KH]

Look up the MemoryStream object
"Chris Fink" wrote:

How do I load a string into a FileStream without going to disk?

For example,

string abc = "This is a string";

How do I load abc into a FileStream?

FileStream input = new FileStream(.... .);

Reason why I am doing this is that a method that I am calling expects a
FileStream but I would prefer to pass it a Filestream generated from a string
instead of a file since it would be extra overhead to create a file from the
string......

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Chris Fink <Ch*******@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote:

How do I load a string into a FileStream without going to disk?

For example,

string abc = "This is a string";

How do I load abc into a FileStream?

FileStream input = new FileStream(.... .);

Reason why I am doing this is that a method that I am calling expects a
FileStream but I would prefer to pass it a Filestream generated from a string
instead of a file since it would be extra overhead to create a file from the
string......

If you don't want to involve files, you don't want a FileStream. The
parameter to the method you're calling should almost certainly just be
Stream, not FileStream. If it's not, you're out of luck. If it is, you
should use a MemoryStream which wraps the results of Encoding.GetByt es
in whatever encoding you want to use.

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[Chris Fink]

Can I cast a MemoryStream to a FileStream?

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" wrote:

Chris Fink <Ch*******@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote:

How do I load a string into a FileStream without going to disk?

For example,

string abc = "This is a string";

How do I load abc into a FileStream?

FileStream input = new FileStream(.... .);

Reason why I am doing this is that a method that I am calling expects a
FileStream but I would prefer to pass it a Filestream generated from a string
instead of a file since it would be extra overhead to create a file from the
string......

If you don't want to involve files, you don't want a FileStream. The
parameter to the method you're calling should almost certainly just be
Stream, not FileStream. If it's not, you're out of luck. If it is, you
should use a MemoryStream which wraps the results of Encoding.GetByt es
in whatever encoding you want to use.

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[Wessel Troost]

> Can I cast a MemoryStream to a FileStream?

Nope. Where would the FileStream find its FileName property?

But you can cast both to Stream.

Greetings,
Wessel

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Chris Fink <Ch*******@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote:

Can I cast a MemoryStream to a FileStream?

No, because it isn't one. A FileStream is always backed by a file -
that's why it's called a FileStream.

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