FileStream - encoding

Question

_{Tuesday, August 22, 2006 6:14 PM}

Hi

I receive files as byte array from a Web service along with the enconding for the same. I want to write the byte array into a file in the local system and I would like to write the file in the same encoding that I recieived from the service.

I tried FileStream to write into the local file system, but I don't find any options to specify the encoding.

Please let me know how to acheive this. I'm using .NET 1.1

Thanks in advance,

Karthick.

All replies (4)

_{Wednesday, August 23, 2006 5:57 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

yes

filestream read or write primative types (byte array), you will need a streamReader or streamWiter to turn it to human readable data , to do that you have to know the encoding , and you can let the streamReader to detect the encoding from the byte array

FileStream fs = new FileStream("<path>");

StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(fs);

System.Text.Encoding code = sr.CurrentEncoding;

StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(fs, code);

hope this helps

_{Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:10 PM}

hi,

you can use streamreader and streamwriter to read from a stream, you can set the default incoding or you can set a bool value to detict the default incoding

FileStream fs = new FileStream("");

StreamReader sr= new StreamReader(fs, true);

StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(fs, true);

you can also use sr , sw to read directly from networkstream

hope this helps

_{Wednesday, August 23, 2006 4:50 AM}

I would be receiving file byte array and encoding string as attributes in a complex type from the Webservice. These will be deserialized into an object with these two attributes.

I need to convert this byte array into a physical file using the encoding string which I received.

Hope I have cleared my requirment.

_{Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:04 PM}

Thanks a lot.

This solves my problem.