Csharp/C Sharp/File Stream/Stream Null

Demonstrate the use of the Null stream as a bit bucket

<source lang="csharp"> /* C# Programming Tips & Techniques by Charles Wright, Kris Jamsa Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill (December 28, 2001) ISBN: 0072193794

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// NullStrm.cs -- demonstrate the use of the Null stream as a bit bucket. // // Compile this program with the following command line: // C:>csc NullStrm.cs // using System; using System.IO; namespace nsStreams {

   public class NullStrm
   {
       static public void Main ()
       {
           byte [] b = new byte [256];
           int count = Stream.Null.Read (b, 0, b.Length);
           Console.WriteLine ("Read {0} bytes", count);
           string str = "Hello, World!";
           StringToByte (out b, str);
           Stream.Null.Write (b, 0, b.Length);
           // Attach a reader and writer to the Null stream
           StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter (Stream.Null);
           StreamReader reader = new StreamReader (Stream.Null);
           writer.Write ("This is going nowhere");
           str = reader.ReadToEnd ();
           Console.Write ("The string read contains {0} bytes", str.Length);
       }
       // Convert a buffer of type string to byte
       static void StringToByte (out byte [] b, string str)
       {
           b = new byte [str.Length];
           for (int x = 0; x < str.Length; ++x)
           {
               b[x] = (byte) str [x];
           }
       }
   }

}

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