Stream into String

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

I have a stream, I need to get it into a string. Is this the best way to do
it? Seems like a lot of junk just to get it into the string.

Forget the fact that its VB - its for inside a VB project

Dim LASCII As New ASCIIEncoding
Dim LResult As String
Dim LStream As New MemoryStream

<some stuff that loads into the stream>

LResult = LASCII.GetString(LStream.ToArray)
LStream.Close()


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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I have a stream, I need to get it into a string. Is this the best way to do
it? Seems like a lot of junk just to get it into the string.

Forget the fact that its VB - its for inside a VB project

Dim LASCII As New ASCIIEncoding
Dim LResult As String
Dim LStream As New MemoryStream

<some stuff that loads into the stream>

LResult = LASCII.GetString(LStream.ToArray)
LStream.Close()

A better way is to use a StreamReader, which you give the encoding you
want to use when you construct it, eg Encoding.ASCII. Then you just
read characters/strings from the StreamReader instead of bytes/chunks
from the stream.

 

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

A better way is to use a StreamReader, which you give the encoding you
want to use when you construct it, eg Encoding.ASCII. Then you just
read characters/strings from the StreamReader instead of bytes/chunks
from the stream.

I cannot use a StreamReader - the "source" I have is a Stream and only
accepts Stream or descendants, which VS says StreamReader is not.


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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I cannot use a StreamReader - the "source" I have is a Stream and only
accepts Stream or descendants, which VS says StreamReader is not.

No, you get a Stream, and construct a StreamReader *from* that Stream.

 

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

No, you get a Stream, and construct a StreamReader *from* that Stream.

Is that really any cleaner or less code than I already have though?


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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Is that really any cleaner or less code than I already have though?

Well, I certainly think so

Do you want to read the whole of the stream in as a string? If so, use
StringReader.ReadToEnd. Then it's as simple as:

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader (stream, Encoding.Whatever);
string text = reader.ReadToEnd();

 

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

Do you want to read the whole of the stream in as a string? If so, use
StringReader.ReadToEnd. Then it's as simple as:

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader (stream, Encoding.Whatever);
string text = reader.ReadToEnd();

Hmm. That looks a bit better.

Yes - If you look at the new Indy article you can see what I wanted to do.


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[Paul Hetherington]

When you 'New' the streamreader one of the overloaded constructors is a
stream from which to read.

Dim myStream as New FileStream(...)
dim myReader as New StreamReader(myStream)
dim myText as String=myReader.ReadToEnd()
myReader.Flush()
myReader.Close()