Re: Is there any iterator-like constructs for Streams?

From: Jon Skeet [C# MVP] (skeet_at_pobox.com)
Date: 06/07/04 

Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 11:42:48 +0100

Peter Rilling <peter@nospam.rilling.net> wrote:
> One nice thing about collections and arrays is that they implement the
> IEnumerator and IEnumerable interfaces which allow for more then one
> iterator to walk the list of items without affecting the position of the
> other iterators. Is there a similar thing with streams? Is there anything
> in the framework that wraps a stream in such a way that the stream position
> is decoupled from the stream itself?

Bear in mind that not every stream is seekable. Once you've read from a
network connection, for instance, you can't go and rewind that. The
stream would have to buffer everything. It's doable, no doubt, but I
don't believe it's provided in the framework. 

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