Read Byte Array into String for Delimiting?

[coconet]

I have a byte[] that came from a network resource. I would like to
read this "line by line" and split it on tab character. The bytes are
ASCII encoded, so there should be real EOL markers. I have my
MemoryStream on the bytes, now how can I quickly read it?

I can't use LINQ because I am working strictly with an instance Type.

Thanks. .NET 3.5.

[Luc E. Mistiaen]

Use Encoding.ASCII.GetString () on the byte [] or open a StreamReader or a
TextReader on your MemoryStream..

/LM

"coconet" <co*****@community.nospamwrote in message
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I have a byte[] that came from a network resource. I would like to
read this "line by line" and split it on tab character. The bytes are
ASCII encoded, so there should be real EOL markers. I have my
MemoryStream on the bytes, now how can I quickly read it?

I can't use LINQ because I am working strictly with an instance Type.

Thanks. .NET 3.5.

[coconet]

The initial byte[] is huge, so I'd rather not turn it into a single
giant string with GetString(). I think what I want to do is read the
byte[] until I hit Environment.NewLine, then re-read the byte[] into a
tempbyte[] with an offset from n to n+read. Then I can to GetString()
on that piece. But I don't know how to code that. I want to use Read
or ReadBytes, maybe BeginRead() to make it Async so I can report what
I'm working on. But I don't know how the code could look.

Help with any guidance code?

Thanks.

On Sat, 24 May 2008 05:03:08 +0200, "Luc E. Mistiaen"
<lu**********@advalvas.be.no.spamwrote:

>Use Encoding.ASCII.GetString () on the byte [] or open a StreamReader or a
TextReader on your MemoryStream..

/LM

"coconet" <co*****@community.nospamwrote in message
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I have a byte[] that came from a network resource. I would like to
read this "line by line" and split it on tab character. The bytes are
ASCII encoded, so there should be real EOL markers. I have my
MemoryStream on the bytes, now how can I quickly read it?

I can't use LINQ because I am working strictly with an instance Type.

Thanks. .NET 3.5.

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

coconet <co*****@community.nospamwrote:

The initial byte[] is huge, so I'd rather not turn it into a single
giant string with GetString(). I think what I want to do is read the
byte[] until I hit Environment.NewLine, then re-read the byte[] into a
tempbyte[] with an offset from n to n+read. Then I can to GetString()
on that piece. But I don't know how to code that. I want to use Read
or ReadBytes, maybe BeginRead() to make it Async so I can report what
I'm working on. But I don't know how the code could look.

Use StreamReader and ReadLine - that will only read one line at a time
(plus a bit for buffering).

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