ReadLines and Encoding

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Hello!

I have following lines

string[] body= File.ReadLines(x).Skip(z).Take(c).ToArray();

How can i use Encoding to ASCII there??

Thank you.

Posted 24-Mar-14 21:06pm

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-24T21:18:00

Solution 1

Try:

C#

byte[][] lines = File.ReadLines(x).Skip(z).Take(c).Select(l => Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(l)).ToArray();

Posted 24-Mar-14 21:18pm

OriginalGriff

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OriginalGriff 25-Mar-14 3:40am

Why? That would just convert it back to Unicode again...

What are you trying to do? Not the specific code, but why are you trying to use ASCII? What do you need it for, and what are you going to do with it?

Punamchand Dhuppad · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-24T21:20:00

Solution 2

File.ReadLine is taking second argument for Encoding Type.

So your code must be -

C#

string[] body = File.ReadLines(x,Encoding.ASCII).Skip(z).Take(c).ToArray();

But if you want to read special characters then -

C#

string[] body = File.ReadLines(x,Encoding.UTF8).Skip(z).Take(c).ToArray();

Hope this will help you...

Posted 24-Mar-14 21:20pm

Punamchand Dhuppad

Updated 24-Mar-14 21:41pm

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Punamchand Dhuppad 25-Mar-14 3:39am

It means that your file has special characters and it is save in UTF 8 format. But if you want to read special characters then use Encoding.UTF8 type in second argument.