StreamReader.ReadLine()

staticv

Hey I have a StreamReader whose underlying stream is a NetworkStream, when I read from it, it throws a FormatException. What could be the causes? I am writing "r\r\n" to the NetworkStream and then call the StreamReader.ReadLine() method on the client side and it throws this exception. What am I doing wrong?

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Dave Kreskowiak

You possibly got an incomplete packet of data? You possible only got a partial line of data from the network stream. Without seeing the code that handles this, it's impossible to say.

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Rob Philpott

You're writing "\r\n" to the network stream server side? Are you not using a StreamWriter with WriteLine()?

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staticv

Hey guys It wasn't the readline() which was causing the exception :) I figured it out it was the Convert class :) which couldn't convert. Thanks anyways

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modified on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:04 PM

Luc Pattyn · modified on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:04 PM

yeah, having two consecutive \r didn't make much sense, did it? one got eaten by ReadLine() as part of Environment.NewLine, and the other was disliked by Convert :-D

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