Convert string to Stream

[Robert Strickland]

What is the best way to convert a variable of type string to the IO.Stream
object?

 

[mikeb]

What is the best way to convert a variable of type string to the IO.Stream
object?

Assuming you want the string's stream encoded in UTF8:

System.IO.MemoryStream = new System.IO.MemoryStream(
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes( "the string"));

Depending on what you really want to do, you might be better served
using the StringReader class. It's not an IO.Stream, but it makes for
easy text-oriented reading of a string.

 

[Robert Strickland]

That worked - thanks

Assuming you want the string's stream encoded in UTF8:

System.IO.MemoryStream = new System.IO.MemoryStream(
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes( "the string"));

Depending on what you really want to do, you might be better served
using the StringReader class. It's not an IO.Stream, but it makes for
easy text-oriented reading of a string.

 

[Robert Strickland]

Thanks for your help. I have one more question. I need to reverse the
process - convert something typed as stream to string.

Thanks again

 

[mikeb]

Thanks for your help. I have one more question. I need to reverse the
process - convert something typed as stream to string.

Once again, this assumes that your encoding is UTF8 - you'll need to use
a difference StreamReader() constructor if the encoding is different.

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System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader( yourStreamObj);

string s = sr.ReadToEnd();
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Eric Gunnerson has a good article on stream IO basics:


http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dncscol/html/csharp01162003.asp

Thanks again