Put text in a stream in C#. | Tech Off

Blkbam
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How can I put text in a stream in C#? Not to sound pushy but nevermind why, I need to pass a stream to a function. It seems the .Net framework will let me create a stream ie:

Stream s = null;

but it won't let me create and instance of it, ie.

Stream s = new Stream();

I know I can get it from other objects such as a HttpRespone or a Assembly.GetSomethingFromStream. Any help would be appreciated.

AndyC

The class you're looking for is StreamWriter

Blkbam
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Close but no. StreamWriter/Reader both take either files or other streams. I need to put the text into a stream without creating a file.

blowdart
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Blkbam wrote:
Close but no. StreamWriter/Reader both take either files or other streams. I need to put the text into a stream without creating a file.

You mean a MemoryStream?

Harlequin
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blowdart wrote:

Blkbam wrote: Close but no. StreamWriter/Reader both take either files or other streams. I need to put the text into a stream without creating a file.
You mean a MemoryStream?

That would be a good one, you can put whatever you want into a MemoryStream Smiley

JPrime
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This is off the top of my head, but you should be able to do something like:

string s = "hello world";

MemoryStream m = new MemoryStream(System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes(s));

Sven Groot
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Blkbam wrote:
Stream s = new Stream();

Stream is an abstract class so it can't be created. You need to create a specific type of stream like a FileStream or a MemoryStream.

Blkbam
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Thanks all. I got that working. It seems thought that if I pass a MemoryStream into a function expecting a Stream object, it doesn't write any of the bytes but it retains the size. Thankfully its my function so I just changed it to accept a MemoryStream instead.