Option Strict and reading bytes from File

[Kejpa]

Hi,
I want to read a fixed number of bytes from a file and when I turned on the
Option Strict I get an error I just can't fix.

The code:
Dim baInfo(99) As Byte
FileGet(iFilNr, baInfo, 5)

The Error:
Option Strict On disallows narrowing from type 'System.Array' to type
'1-dimensional array of Byte' in copying the value of 'ByRef' parameter
'Value' back to the matching argument.

Anyone any ideas?
/Kejpa

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Kejpa" <kS*******@saj.fi> schrieb:

Dim baInfo(99) As Byte
FileGet(iFilNr, baInfo, 5)

The Error:
Option Strict On disallows narrowing from type 'System.Array' to type
'1-dimensional array of Byte' in copying the value of 'ByRef' parameter
'Value' back to the matching argument.

Untested:

\\\
FileGet(19, DirectCast(baInfo, Array), 5)
///

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
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[Kejpa]

It worked, thanks a lot!

Do you have anything like it up the sleeve for reading structs?
I have the same problem there...

TIA
/Kejpa

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.at> wrote in message
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"Kejpa" <kS*******@saj.fi> schrieb:

Dim baInfo(99) As Byte
FileGet(iFilNr, baInfo, 5)

The Error:
Option Strict On disallows narrowing from type 'System.Array' to type
'1-dimensional array of Byte' in copying the value of 'ByRef' parameter
'Value' back to the matching argument.

Untested:

\\\
FileGet(19, DirectCast(baInfo, Array), 5)
///

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>