By null characters, what do you mean? Do you mean literally '\0'? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Clark Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 1:52 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: OPen File not working...
Definitely sounds like it could be an encoding problem. You could try replacing this function of yours with System.IO.File.ReadAllText<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.file.readalltext.aspx>, which should attempt to automatically detect the file encoding for you. Alternatively, open the file in a decent text editor (like Notepad++), which will be able to tell you the encoding of the file. Also, have you checked if an exception is being thrown? I notice you are catching it and printing it to trace output. Any leads there? Joe. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Jano Petras <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Anthony, It seems related to encoding mark (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark). Just throwing few ideas into the air here as haven't really tried this myself - but maybe you could try using StreamReader constructor overload that accepts encoding so you could pass Encoding.Unicode to see if it solves the issue. If not, reading the file as stream of bytes and then use the Encoding converter to convert it to string or strip off the byte order mark at the beginning and convert then? There is a similar topic discussed here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1835430/byte-order-mark-screws-up-file-reading-in-java but uses Java to explain the issue and resolution. Cheers, jano On 15 November 2010 10:10, Anthony <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I have been using this function for years with no problem..now when i try to open a file(contains XML)..it returns an empty string even though it has text. I have noticed that the XML fie has some null charcaters at the begining..any suggestion? Public Shared Function GetFileContents(ByVal FullPath As String) As String Dim stream As FileStream = Nothing Dim strContents As String = String.Empty Try stream = File.Open(FullPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read) Dim Tin As System.IO.StreamReader = New System.IO.StreamReader(stream) strContents = Tin.ReadToEnd() Tin.Close() stream.Close() Return strContents Catch ex As Exception Trace.WriteLine(ex.Message) Return "" Finally If Not stream Is Nothing Then stream.Close() End If End Try End Function Is your website being IntelliXperienced?<http://www.intellixperience.com/signup.aspx> | www.yougoingmyway.com<http://www.yougoingmyway.com> ? regards Anthony (*12QWERNB*) Is your website being IntelliXperienced?
