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

Hi Doru The last time I used FS that was the way to do it. Maybe what you want could be accomplished by adding convenience methods to FSReadStream like #stringContents or something. Anyway, I agree with Norbert that a ByteArray is really the data structure that you should expect to get from a file. Cheers, Max On 17.11.2011, at 22:01, Tudor Girba wrote:

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?

Cheers, Doru

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