create a byte[] froma url

[tessellated]

Hi all,

I have various urls which point to .xls files. I wish to read
iteratively read those files into memory so that I can turn them into
byte arrays and do further operations on them. The constructor for
System.IO.FileStream does not support URI's. What other tools are out
there for accomplishing this?

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

byte[] URLInBytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(YourURL);

 

[tessellated]

Ummm, doesn't that just encode into a byte array the string literal of
YourURL?

I want to dump the actual contents of the xls file pointed to by the
url into a byte array, or even better I'd be happy if I could put that
file into a stream and access it that way.

byte[] URLInBytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(YourURL);


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Salvador Alvarez Patuel
Exony Ltd - London, UK

Hi all,

I have various urls which point to .xls files. I wish to read
iteratively read those files into memory so that I can turn them into
byte arrays and do further operations on them. The constructor for
System.IO.FileStream does not support URI's. What other tools are out
there for accomplishing this?

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

WebClient wc = new WebClient();
byte[] b = wc.DownloadData("Http://yourUrltoExcelFile.xls");

I'ts in the System.Net namespace.

I cannot imagine what kind of manipulation you expect to be able to do with
an XLS Excel workbook file as a byte array, however.

Peter