String.Replace Anomoly

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

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Thank you again for all of the outstanding responses.

The file that I am working with is originated on a solaris 8 unix
system. How would I go about identifying the correct "encoding"?

You need to find out what's producing the file, and look at the
documentation for it. If it doesn't document the encoding used, you'll
need to look at the output for various different characters

Also, with the File.ReadAllText(), would I even need a streamreader
for that?

No, it does it all internally.