Reading a String from a Stream

07.02.10

Problem: You need to read some text from a stream of some sort.

Solution: Use StreamReader class , set the postion to 0 and call ReadToEnd().

Code!

 

static string GetStringFromStream(Stream inputStream)
{
    var pos = inputStream.Position;
    var reader = new StreamReader(inputStream);
    inputStream.Position = 0;
    var text = reader.ReadToEnd();
    inputStream.Position = pos;
    return text;
}

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