C# FileInfo OpenRead
Description
FileInfo OpenRead Creates a read-only FileStream.
Syntax
FileInfo.OpenRead has the following syntax.
public FileStream OpenRead()
Returns
FileInfo.OpenRead method returns A new read-only FileStream object.
Example
The following example opens a file as read-only and reads from it.
//from w ww . jav a 2s . c o m
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
class Test
{
public static void Main()
{
string path = @"c:\MyTest.txt";
FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(path);
using (FileStream fs = fi.OpenRead())
{
byte[] b = new byte[1024];
UTF8Encoding temp = new UTF8Encoding(true);
while (fs.Read(b,0,b.Length) > 0)
{
Console.WriteLine(temp.GetString(b));
}
}
}
}