IOStream does not read special characters

[Marcus O via DotNetMonster.com]

Hello,

I am fairly new to vb.net and I have a problem when reading from text file. The file contains characters not found in English (e.g. ?, ?, ?). When I am doing a ReadLine those characters are skipped by vb.net. Does anyone know what to do to fix my problem?

/m

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Marcus,

The least you should know is the code the file is in.
The class for that is the encoding class

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../frlrfsystemiostreamreaderclassctortopic6.asp

When you know the code you can use as well something as.

\\\\
Dim Str As New StreamReader("path")
Dim arrInput As Byte() = _
System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(437).GetBytes(Str.ReadToEnd)
Str.Close()
///

I hope this helps?

Cor

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I am fairly new to vb.net and I have a problem when reading from text
file. The file contains characters not found in English (e.g. ?, ?, ?).
When I am doing a ReadLine those characters are skipped by vb.net. Does
anyone know what to do to fix my problem?

Depending on the encoding that was used to write the file, specify an
encoding ('System.Text.Encoding.*') in the 'StreamReader''s constructur.
BTW: I don't see the characters that are not read (they are relplaced by
question marks in your message.