Using Streams with Strings
Although not often utilized, you can use StringReader and StringWriter for manipulating strings. The following example generates a new StringBuilder and associates it to a new StringWriter. Then it retrieves the list of filenames in the C:\ directory and puts each string into the writer. You notice that because of the association between the two objects, changes are reflected to the StringBuilder. Try this:
Dim sBuilder As New Text.StringBuilderDim sWriter As New StringWriter(sBuilder)For Each name As String In Directory.GetFiles("C:\") sWriter.WriteLine(name)NextsWriter.Close()Console.WriteLine(sBuilder.ToString)
To read strings, you can use the StringReader object, whose constructor ...
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