TextReader Class

TextReader is the abstract base class of StreamReader and StringReader, which read characters from streams and strings, respectively. Use these derived classes to open a text file for reading a specified range of characters, or to create a reader based on an existing stream.

A derived class must minimally implement the Peek and Read methods to make a useful instance of TextReader.

The TextReader class is an abstract class. Therefore, you do not instantiate it in your code. The StreamReader class derives from TextReader and provides implementations of the members for reading from a stream. The following example shows how to read all the characters in a file by using the StreamReader.ReadAsync(Char[], Int32, Int32) method. It checks whether each character is a letter, digit, or white space before adding the character to an instance of the StringBuilder class.

using System;
using System.Windows;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

namespace WpfApplication
{
    public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        public MainWindow()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private async void Button_Click_1(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            string filename = @"C:\Example\existingfile.txt";
            char[] result;
            StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();

            using (StreamReader reader = File.OpenText(filename))
            {
                result = new char[reader.BaseStream.Length];
                await reader.ReadAsync(result, 0, (int)reader.BaseStream.Length);
            }

            foreach (char c in result)
            {
                if (char.IsLetterOrDigit(c) || char.IsWhiteSpace(c))
                {
                    builder.Append(c);
                }
            }
            FileOutput.Text = builder.ToString();
        }
    }
}

.NET Framework

.NET Framework Client Profile

Portable Class Library

.NET for Windows Store apps

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

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