"JimmyKoolPantz" <kohl.mike@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Rick wrote:
> Can you specify the encoding of the stream?
>
> Rick
>
>
> "JimmyKoolPantz" <kohl.mike@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I came across a problem today and I'm not sure what my possible
> solutions are. The situation is I am am using a binary reader to read
> data from a filestream. The data source is a dbf file.
>
> While reading characters from the stream, I came across a problem. The
> problem is "Prot=E9G=E9" . This is a persons name in one of the fields,
> and when reading characters, it basically skips the e's and grabs 2
> bytes from the next field. Which throws everything else off by two.
>
> Ayone have any solutions?
>
> Just incase you need to know, am using
> binaryreader.ReadChars(Field_Lenght). Wen it reads "Prot=E9G=E9" its not
> reading the e's. So instead of reading 7characters its only reading 5
> and grabing 2 characters from the next field.