BinaryReader.ReadChars Method
[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]
Reads the specified number of characters from the current stream, returns the data in a character array, and advances the current position in accordance with the Encoding used and the specific character being read from the stream.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Parameters
- count
- Type: System.Int32
The number of characters to read.
Return Value
Type: System.Char []A character array containing data read from the underlying stream. This might be less than the number of characters requested if the end of the stream is reached.
| Exception | Condition |
|---|---|
| ObjectDisposedException | The stream is closed. |
| IOException | An I/O error occurs. |
| ArgumentOutOfRangeException | count is negative. |
BinaryReader does not restore the file position after an unsuccessful read operation.
When reading from network streams, in some rare cases, the ReadChars method might read an extra character from the stream if the BinaryReader was constructed with Unicode encoding. If this occurs, you can use the ReadBytes method to read a fixed-length byte array, and then pass that array to the ReadChars method.