[Mono-list] read / write string to stream

[Abe Gillespie]

Yes, implementation is up to me ... but since I'm flexible I'd rather
just use a built-in method if there is one.  And there is!  Thank you,
this is precisely what I was looking for.

-Abe

On 4/23/06, Kornél Pál <kornelpal at gmail.com> wrote:
> The method you want to use to store strings is up to you but the class
> library has support for lenght prefixed string encoding.
>
> BinaryReader.ReadString()
> BinaryWriter.Write(string)
>
> If you use Encoding.UTF8 with BinaryReader and BinaryWriter you will get a
> very portable solution.
>
> Kornél
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Abe Gillespie" <abe.gillespie at gmail.com>
> To: "mono-list @ lists. ximian. com" <mono-list at lists.ximian.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 3:48 AM
> Subject: [Mono-list] read / write string to stream
>
>
> Is there a standard way to read and write strings from / to streams
> such that the string's length prefixes the string or the string is
> null-terminated?  Or must this code be implemented by hand?
>
> This is how I manually read a string from a stream.  The string is
> prefixed by its length:
>
> // Get the length of the string.
> byte[] data = new byte[sizeof(int)];
> stream.Read(data, sizeof(int), tmpPtr);
> int len = BitConverter.ToInt32(data, 0);
>
> string myStr = "";
> if (len > 0)
> {
>     // Read in the string bytes.
>     data = new byte[len];
>     stream.Read(data, len, tmpPtr);
>
>     // Convert to a normal string.
>     myStr = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(data);
> }
>
> I do pretty much the opposite to write the string.  I rather not do
> this manually if there's already a standard way to.
>
> Thanks for any help.
> -Abe
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