BinaryWriter Write adds Carrots

[Travis Llewellyn]

I am writing a program that write out and array that I have stored. It
writes out the whole array but adds a Carrot "^" in front of each
section it writes.

If I do a debug.writeline(hello) it shows the line perfect in the
immediate windows without the carrot.

Any help would be appreciated.

Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
shrdvars.wflname = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Mid(ofdlg1.FileName,
21, 12)
sfdlg1.FileName = shrdvars.wflname
sfdlg1.InitialDirectory() = "h:\dp\testfolder\out\"
sfdlg1.ShowDialog()
Dim fsw As New FileStream(sfdlg1.FileName, FileMode.CreateNew)
Dim rw As New BinaryWriter(fsw)
'FileOpen(1, sfdlg1.FileName, OpenMode.Binary, OpenAccess.Write,
OpenShare.Default, 94)
Dim three As New shrdvars
Dim hello As String
Dim s As Integer
For s = 0 To shrdvars.al.Count - 1
hello = three.parsrecord(shrdvars.al(s))
rw.Write(hello)
Next
rw.Close()
fsw.Close()


End Sub

 

[Guest]

Travis,

From the .Net online documentation about BinaryWriter's Write (string) method:

"A length-prefixed string represents the string length by prefixing to the
string a single byte or word that contains the length of that string."

Kerry Moorman

 

[Travis Llewellyn]

Kerry,

Thanks for the quick reply, Can you give me a quick way to drop that
byte before writing?

Travis

 

[Guest]

Travis,

The binarywriter has to add that length byte so the binaryreader can
correctly read the file.

Perhaps you need to use some other output technique, instead of binary.

Kerry Moorman

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Travis,
Have you tried writing the individual characters instead of writing the
entire string?

Hope this helps
Jay

 

[Travis Llewellyn]

Jay,

This worked great.
Thanks
Travis

Travis,
Have you tried writing the individual characters instead of writing
the entire string?


Hope this helps
Jay