FileStream Read File

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FileStream Read File [C#]


This example shows how to safely read file using FileStream in C#. To be sure the whole file is correctly read, you should call FileStream.Read method in a loop, even if in the most cases the whole file is read in a single call of FileStream.Read method.


Read file using FileStream


First create FileStream to open a file for reading. Then call FileStream.Read in a loop until the whole file is read. Finally close the stream.
[C#]
using System.IO;


public static byte[] ReadFile(string filePath)
{
byte[] buffer;
FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
try
{
int length = (int)fileStream.Length; // get file length
buffer = new byte[length]; // create buffer
int count; // actual number of bytes read
int sum = 0; // total number of bytes read


// read until Read method returns 0 (end of the stream has been reached)
while ((count = fileStream.Read(buffer, sum, length - sum)) > 0)
sum += count; // sum is a buffer offset for next reading
}
finally
{
fileStream.Close();
}
return buffer;
}