File types

[Lost User]

1. use BinaryReader 2) use BinaryWriter

[viciouskinid]

i am trying to with the following code: OpenFileDialog fd = new OpenFileDialog(); if (fd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { FileStream streamR = new FileStream(fd.FileName, FileMode.Open); BinaryReader r = new BinaryReader(streamR); int count=0; while (true) {string st=r.ReadString(); if ((count > 374855)&&(st != string.Empty)) MessageBox.Show(count+"|"+st+"|"); count++; } } I am not getting anything i can read. Any ideas?

[Lost User]

ReadString expects a crazy string format that no one uses except WriteString in BinaryWriter You could read a byte array and use Encoding.UTF16.GetString(bytes) or something like that

[viciouskinid]

ok still no luck I tried the code below: OpenFileDialog fd = new OpenFileDialog(); if (fd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { // fd.FileName; // FileStream streamR = new FileStream(fd.FileName, FileMode.Open); BinaryReader r = new BinaryReader(streamR); int count=0; while (true) {byte[] st=r.ReadBytes(8); if ((count > 374855) && (Encoding.UTF8.GetString(st)!=string.Empty)) MessageBox.Show(count + "|" + Encoding.UTF8.GetString(st) + "|"); count++; } } I used UTF8 because there wasnt a UTF16.

[Lost User]

Hm.. try Encoding.Unicode?

[viciouskinid]

no that doesnt work either. is this correct in my code? byte[] st=r.ReadBytes(8);

[Lost User]

It depends on the place. GetString might not like too many zero's so it might be good to remove them..

[viciouskinid]

I really have no idea. Do you think you would be able to get it to work and share the code with me?

[Lost User]

Ah I don't know, have you tried looking at what the byte array contains before stringing it? Probably.. but.. what was in it?

[viciouskinid]

Thanks for all your help. I was able to get the code for a c# hex editor and it helped me figure it out.