BinaryWriter problem

[Peyman]

Hello all,
This is my first c# program. And I seem to have a problem. Here is the
code:

FileStream myStream = new FileStream("d:\\test.txt",
FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);

BinaryWriter writer = new BinaryWriter(myStream);

writer.Write("ntestestse");
writer.Close();

In my text file I get a line feed 0x0a as the first char and then the
string "ntestestse" (including the n). I have realised that if i
change the string to test then I get a 0x09 (tab) as the first char in
the file. so it seems to be related to the first char of my string.
Any ideas???

thanks
Peyman Zehtab-Fard

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Peyman,
BinaryWriter writes strings as a counted (length prefixed) string. It writes
one or more bytes of how many characters are in the string followed by the
string.

For details see the BinaryWriter.Write(String) method &
BinaryReader.ReadString methods:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...iteTopic13.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tringTopic.asp

Hope this helps
Jay

"Peyman" <pe*****@netscape.net> wrote in message
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Hello all,
This is my first c# program. And I seem to have a problem. Here is the
code:

FileStream myStream = new FileStream("d:\\test.txt",
FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);

BinaryWriter writer = new BinaryWriter(myStream);

writer.Write("ntestestse");
writer.Close();

In my text file I get a line feed 0x0a as the first char and then the
string "ntestestse" (including the n). I have realised that if i
change the string to test then I get a 0x09 (tab) as the first char in
the file. so it seems to be related to the first char of my string.
Any ideas???

thanks
Peyman Zehtab-Fard

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Peyman,
BinaryWriter writes strings as a counted (length prefixed) string. It writes
one or more bytes of how many characters are in the string followed by the
string.

For details see the BinaryWriter.Write(String) method &
BinaryReader.ReadString methods:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...iteTopic13.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tringTopic.asp

Hope this helps
Jay

"Peyman" <pe*****@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:69**************************@posting.google.c om...

Hello all,
This is my first c# program. And I seem to have a problem. Here is the
code:

FileStream myStream = new FileStream("d:\\test.txt",
FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);

BinaryWriter writer = new BinaryWriter(myStream);

writer.Write("ntestestse");
writer.Close();

In my text file I get a line feed 0x0a as the first char and then the
string "ntestestse" (including the n). I have realised that if i
change the string to test then I get a 0x09 (tab) as the first char in
the file. so it seems to be related to the first char of my string.
Any ideas???

thanks
Peyman Zehtab-Fard

[Peyman Zehtab-Fard]

Thanks,
I should have seen that. I am using StreamWriter now and all is working
fine.

Regards
Peyman Zehtab-Fard

"Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]" <Ja********@email.msn.com> wrote in message
news:OW**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Peyman,
BinaryWriter writes strings as a counted (length prefixed) string. It writes one or more bytes of how many characters are in the string followed by the
string.

For details see the BinaryWriter.Write(String) method &
BinaryReader.ReadString methods:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...iteTopic13.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tringTopic.asp
Hope this helps
Jay

"Peyman" <pe*****@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:69**************************@posting.google.c om...

Hello all,
This is my first c# program. And I seem to have a problem. Here is the
code:

FileStream myStream = new FileStream("d:\\test.txt",
FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);

BinaryWriter writer = new BinaryWriter(myStream);

writer.Write("ntestestse");
writer.Close();

In my text file I get a line feed 0x0a as the first char and then the
string "ntestestse" (including the n). I have realised that if i
change the string to test then I get a 0x09 (tab) as the first char in
the file. so it seems to be related to the first char of my string.
Any ideas???

thanks
Peyman Zehtab-Fard