Re: [Pharo-project] how to get a string read stream from filesystem

Am 17.11.2011 um 22:01 schrieb Tudor Girba:

Hi,

I am using Filesystem, and I would like to get a read stream that provides a string instead of bytes.

If I do "aReference readStream", I get a FSReadStream which is a byte stream.

To get to the string, I now do the ugly: "aReference readStream contents asString"

Is there a cleverer way?

I don't know FileSystem. But in any case a bytestream is correct. In order to get a string you need to decode it. Only for ascii this is null codec. For any other encoded file you won't get what you want. So, using a textconverter with file encoding might get you what you want. Norbert