Reading from a file, what am i doing wrong here ?

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Claire - 28 Sep 2007 12:23 GMT

I can't see what Ive done wrong with the following, would someone help
please.
I'm trying to read rich text from a file. Ive tested the file using a hex
editor and the contents have been written correctly. When i read back the
file, the result is returned as the file name and not the file contents!!
_BodyFilename is defined by Path.GetTempFileName()
thanks :)
(visual studio 2005 on XP pro)

string result = "";
if (File.Exists(_BodyFilename))
{
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(_BodyFilename);
try
{
result = sr.ReadToEnd();
}
finally
{
sr.Close();
}
}
return result;

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Som Nath Shukla - 28 Sep 2007 13:06 GMT

Path.GetTempFileName() return a temproray file name with zero sies.
that's why u are not getting any output

> I can't see what Ive done wrong with the following, would someone help
> please.
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> }
> return result;

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Claire - 28 Sep 2007 13:14 GMT

The file has data in it which was written "earlier". I just generated the
temp file using gettempfilename.
As i said, I tested the file using a hex editor and it contained the correct
contents.
thank you anyway :)

> Path.GetTempFileName() return a temproray file name with zero sies.
> that's why u are not getting any output
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>> file, the result is returned as the file name and not the file contents!!
>> _BodyFilename is defined by Path.GetTempFileName()

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Som Nath Shukla - 28 Sep 2007 14:05 GMT

every time u write Path.GetTemFilename() generates a new temporary file.
send me ur full code .

> The file has data in it which was written "earlier". I just generated the
> temp file using gettempfilename.
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> >> file, the result is returned as the file name and not the file contents!!
> >> _BodyFilename is defined by Path.GetTempFileName()

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Som Nath Shukla - 28 Sep 2007 14:15 GMT

you should use Path.GetFilename(Filepath)
instead of GetTempFilename
baoth are different function.
GetTempFilename does not take any argument and generate a temproray file
.tmp extension

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John Duval - 28 Sep 2007 13:54 GMT

> I can't see what Ive done wrong with the following, would someone help
> please.
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>
> return result;

Hi Claire,
For what it's worth, I created an RTF using wordpad, and ran your code
and I got the contents of the file just fine. Perhaps you could post
the code that generates the file?

By the way I replaced _BodyFilename with a constant that points to the
file I generated, like so:
string _BodyFilename = @"c:\foo.rtf";

Not sure it matters, but I'm also running VS.NET 2005 under XP Pro.
John

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