[Mono-dev] Read file under Linux?

[Rafael Teixeira]

Besides what Alex said you need a way to find the file.

You may try to use Assembly.Codebase with Assembly.GetEntryAssembly()
to first locate where your executable is, then use
System.Io.Path.Combine() to compose the full path to your properties
file.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection.assembly.getentryassembly.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection.assembly.codebase.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.path.combine.aspx

Fun,

Rafael "Monoman" Teixeira
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On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:39 PM, SamHellawell <samlikeswilly at live.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hey there!
>
> Basically, my C# project works perfectly well under Windows, and after
> sorting out some GAC problems it *almost* works on Linux. I am stump however
> as to how to open and read a file under Linux using Mono, i have tried
> entering Linux paths and local paths. The file I wish to read is within the
> same directly as the binary. If anybody could help me out, i'd greatly
> appreciate it. The file i wish to load is called example.properties
>
> My load function:
>
>        public Boolean Load(string filename)
>        {
>            try
>            {
>                FileStream file = File.Open(filename, FileMode.Open);
>
>                UTF8Encoding temp = new UTF8Encoding(true);
>                string fileContents = "";
>
>                byte[] b = new byte[1024];
>                while (file.Read(b, 0, b.Length) > 0)
>                {
>                    fileContents += temp.GetString(b);
>                }
>
>                    string[] lineSplit = fileContents.Split((char)10);
>
>                    for(int i = 0; i < lineSplit.Length; i++)
>                    {
>                        props.Add(lineSplit[i].Split('=')[0],
> lineSplit[i].Split('=')[1]);
>                    }
>
>                return true;
>            }
>            catch
>            {
>                Console.WriteLine("Unable to load properties file: " +
> filename);
>                return false;
>            }
>        }
>
>
> Cheers, Sam.
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