Re: Encoding... sigh.

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From: Jon Skeet [C# MVP] (skeet_at_pobox.com)
Date: 02/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:25:39 -0000

C# Learner <csharp@learner.here> wrote:
> >Then just read the content from the stream, and don't try to convert it
> >into a string.
>
> But I need to eventually convert this content into an array of bytes
> (to be sent off to another socket). I really can't have decoding
> happening here. :-(

Then why were you trying to read it into a string? Just read it into an
array of bytes. You can use MemoryStream to make that easier for you -
just read a block at a time, writing the contents of the block to the
MemoryStream, and then call ToArray at the end. 

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