File IO Read

[Guest]

I am having a an issue trying to read a text file using the File.Read command.
Here's the code:

FileStream fs = File.Open ("somefile.xml",Open,Read,ReadWrite);
StringBuilder strXml = new StringBuilder();
byte[] b = new byte[1024];
UTF8Encoding temp = new UTF8Encoding(true);

while (fs.Read(b,0,b.Length) > 0)
{
strXml.Append(temp.GetString(b));
}
fs.Close();


The problem I'm having is when I look at the finished string
strXml.toString() it contains the cr / lf characters(\r\n) ie:

<COOKIES>\r\n <IDGROUP>somegroup</IDGROUP>\r\n

I do not want these non-printable characters, only the visual text.
I was hoping there is a setting I am missing.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

thanks
paul

 

[Peter Rilling]

Does this only happen when you are viewing the item in the debugger? These
character always appear in the debugger, but not if you were to write them
out to a file.

 

[Guest]

Try this:

TextReader reader = File.OpenText("somefile.xml");
string strXml = reader.ReadToEnd();
reader.Close();

If you want to remove all the \r and \n from the string you could do
something like:
strXml = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(strXml, @"[\r\n]", "");

Hope that helps.